Dear Riccardo, > they removed one of the > options needed to work as a library.
Which option? Here is the xpdf upside-down (!) change-log: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/CHANGES Would you like me to forward your email to derekn <der...@foolabs.com> and ask them to bring the option back? As mentioned at http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html, http://freecode.com/projects/xpdf ? It is the right version, yes? Svetlana Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: > Hi, > > David Chisnall wrote: > > Poppler is based on xpdf (effectively the xpdf core refactored as a > > library). It isn’t a bad library, but due to its history it is GPLv2 (no > > ‘or later’ clause). It was one of the main reasons that GNUstep remained > > LGPL2.1+ - moving to LGPLv3 would have made it incompatible with Poppler. > > The GPL in Poppler also makes it difficult to put it in a library that can > > be used by other things (for example, if we want to do full-text searching > > in PDFs then we can’t use Apache Lucene, which is Apache licensed). > > I do well know these licensing issues (the other being the Linux code in > Terminal). > xpdf made a leap forward and was relicensed in its latest release and > now contains the "or later clause". The stupid part is however that I > can't get PDFKit to work with the newer version, they removed one of the > options needed to work as a library. > I made several attempts but failed failed and lost time. It would be > nice to collaborate with the guy. > > Riccardo > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
