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 More options Jul 23 2012, 1:10 pm
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From: Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:10:03 +0200
Local: Mon, Jul 23 2012 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: Printers using free software only
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On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 14:11:57 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> A fair number of printers that do postscript are actually ghostscript
> printers.  Technically, ghostscript is nonfree, but when I investigated a
> while ago, each version of ghostscript remanins proprietary for about two
> years, and is then released free.

A better way of looking at it is: Printers may come with PostScript
interpreters. GhostScript can generate the PostScript to send to them.

GhostScript has been released under the GNU General Public Licence for
some time now. The situation you describe (first releasing under a
non-free licence) no longer exists.

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