Mailing the story:
AFPL Ghostscript 8.54 released -- and 8.54 is now GPL'd as well!
We nearly missed the news... but already a week ago Raph Levien put some exciting news into his blog (Raph is the lead developer of Ghostscript since Peter L. Deutsch stepped down a few years ago): Ghostscript's latest release 8.54 is available. And it is not just under their commercial license (AFPL) -- they also put it under the GPL! In the past, AFPL versions were "made free" after about a year (and when again a newer leading edge version of AFPL Ghostscript was out). Now it looks they put even their development branch under GPL. Read more....