[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/15/22 19:27, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/15/2022 9:43 AM, Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>> Joukj schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2022 um 08:54:04 UTC+1:
>>> Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>>>> Joukj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 12:47:42 UTC+1:
>>>>> Andreas Gruhl wrote:
>>>>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 02:22:04 UTC+1:
>>>>>>> But it is 25 years old - older than VMS NetScape. There must
>>>>>>> be a lot of missing features in 2022.
>>>>>> Well, we could live with very old standards. We need no fancy 
>>>>>> stuff at all.
>>>>>> If we just could find the source for one of the last browser 
>>>>>> versions compiled for Itanium we would dive into it and see what's 
>>>>>> coming out on X86.
>>>>>> That would be far better than having nothing at all.
>>>>> Some info is at (I did not test the compilation) at
>>>>>
>>>>> https://openvms-opensource.blogspot.com/2019/03/secure-web-browser-source.html
>>>>>
>>>>>  From the same location as the CSWB sources I could download in the 
>>>>> past
>>>>> the sources of the firefox port for itanium.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the link. I missed it. I have some difficulties in 
>>>> accessing the sources but we will give it further tries.
> 
>>> All the sources are on "old" sites of HP. So i'm not sure if they are
>>> present there. Anyway I have copies, but I have no idea if we can
>>> distribute them.
> 
>> Your assumption seems true. None of the links that I found is still 
>> alive.
>> Would be great, if you could help me.
> 
> It should be possible to get it.
> 
> HP distributed the binary. The source code is under MPL.
> MPL require anyone providing a binary also providing
> the source.
> 
> So HPE cannot say no.

But they can say that being as they are no longer in that
line of business they no longer have binaries or sources.

> 
> But finding someone in HPE that understands MPL, knows where the
> source is and has authority to make it available may not be easy.

See my comment above.  :-)

bill