So no, you have not obtain ‘commercial license’ from Artifex to use Ghostscript in your app.
Ghostscript commercial license price software#
That means, that you have to make your entire software product, which is based on Ghostscript, subject of GNU AGPL, which in turn put you under obligation to provide to your customers (including customers of SaaS) correspondent sources for your product and to grant them permissions to (0) use it in any purpose, (1) redistribute it, (2) modify it and (3) distribute modifications all of that in accordance with GNU AGPL. The key point of GNU AGPL is that it is a strong copyleft license.
Ghostscript commercial license price free#
But it’s called ‘commercial’ because, I guess, Atrifex makes money on it, definitely not because that is only way for you to use Ghostscript for profit.Īny free software license, including GNU AGPL, by definition gives you, once you obtain a copy of software, right to use it for commercial purposes, including selling it but you, of course, have to strictly follow the terms of that license.
Well, first of all, you need a license to use any software (except one, which is public domain) in any way.Īs for Ghostscript at the moment Artifex offers it under: a) GNU Affero GPL, which is license for free/libre software b) non-free/proprietary license, which Artifex calls a ‘commercial license’. You should get one, if you are concerned about possible legal issues.ĭoes Commercial use of GhostScript as Saas needs a licence?
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