Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 11:23:23 -0600 From: ken Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Why can't I view PostScript file in my browser (Firefox)? Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 17:23:21 -0000 Message-ID: References: <84941585-1e78-490c-bec5-c7cc4904a899@googlegroups.com> <061eefc2-c614-4f78-b82a-2bcf73ca68eb@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ken@spamcop.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 171106-2, 06/11/2017), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-eSkRPmNixhXxH8/Hq5KpmUv+FsBsuyjz+BKDGaG1NMDRQUT61K6IB7z/BO5VIGw/TVv46UZnyzqltad!o98ebcxfyYptyEACT+SBixzr1U/JUPqaSxiDMLJdosX9esQI1e6nWmmSJ3P+P2vGkC/MeWV6e/MV!xl2YAbtw/bcn0LXKvA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2098 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:3187 In article <061eefc2-c614-4f78-b82a-2bcf73ca68eb@googlegroups.com>, luser.droog@gmail.com says... > Another problem is licencing. Unless Artifex themselves want to develop and > distribute a plugin for one or more browsers, then someone has to licence the > interpreter in order to offer it bundled up. Or Adobe, .... But there's no > real technical or economic need for anyone to do this. That's not completely the csase. Ghostscript *is* open source (AGPL) so if someone wanted to develop a plugin, and it was AGPL, then there wouldn't be a problem with the licence. In fact if the plugin forked a process (which it probably isn't allowed ot do :-) then it wouldn't even need to link to Ghostscript. Lots of Linux applications use Ghostscript as a plugin, or fork it as a process. Artifex almost certainly won't do it, we don't have the engineering resource to do so.