> that's the point, we don't want to release under the GPL. And that's the point here too -- releasing the library under the GPL is an incentive for application developers (and other library developers, FWIW) to release their work under the GPL.
I am not a GNU PDF maintainer/developer so my opinion is by definition not authoritative, but I hope (and believe) that this library will never be relicensed under a weak copyleft license such as LGPL. We are absolutely determined to use the licensing which will best support the freedom of the users of the library, and by extension the freedom of the users of applications using the library. That is the reason we decided to use a strong copyleft license, and it is a fact that is not going to change in the future. Additionally, in order to strength the application of the license, all the code is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation.
