A recent federal district court decision denied a motion to dismiss a complaint brought by Artifex Software Inc. (“Artifex”) for breach of contract and copyright infringement claims against Defendant ...

Despite the prevalence of open source software and its ubiquitous use in the software industry, there has been little litigation in the United States analyzing and interpreting the terms of open ...

This week Ghostscript, an open source postscript processor, released version 8.60. Ghostscript releases are not normally newsworthy since they are frequent and incremental, but this release is special ...

Artifex Software, the company behind the open source Ghostscript PDF processing software, has filed a lawsuit against voting machine vendor Diebold and its subsidiary Premier Election Solutions.

It would be difficult to imagine the technological enhancements to the world we live in today without open-source software. You will find it somewhere in most of your consumer electronics, in the ...

A vulnerability in Ghostscript, a widely used interpreter for Adobe PostScript and PDF page description languages, could allow attackers to remotely take control of vulnerable systems -- and there's ...

A remote code execution vulnerability in the Ghostscript document conversion toolkit, widely used on Linux systems, is currently being exploited in attacks. Ghostscript comes pre-installed on many ...

IT security researchers have discovered five security vulnerabilities in Ghostscript. Attackers can, for example, bypass the sandbox and execute arbitrary code. A proof-of-concept exploit is publicly ...