Re: pdflib/pangopdf

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Fri, Apr 11, 2003, à 02:15:13PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:


> >From the looks of the Debian dependencies, it's free of Gnome deps.  The
> Gnome-Print UI, on the other hand, is not, it uses Gnome canvas.
>
> 
> Before anybody goes on to suggest that libpdf be the only PS/EPS/PDF output
> mechanism, we'd need to figure out more about their license.  It's quirky.

Well, before being "the only", it will have first to be written, then to 
compete with what exists.

For the license, yep, there is the problem of some files being
BSD+Advertising; it might be a good idea to ask the question on
debian-legal@lists.debian.org; it's possible that the offending file
(gp-tt-t1.[ch]) has been subsequently relicensed under BSD-Adv or LGPL (I
don't know for sure). It looks like most files are licensed under LGPL, but
the Debian Package copyright file advertises only plain GPL license (might 
be an error -- maybe you could also contact Christian Marillat?).

	-- Cyrille

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