On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 18:19 -0700, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> Connecting up Poppler to PoDoFo wouldn't be that difficult - I've sat Xpdf 
> (on which Poppler is based) on top of other PDF libraries in the past to use 
> its rendering facilities in conjunction with other PDF reading/writing needs. 
>  Basically you just need to replace parts of the core 
> Object/Dict/Array/Stream classes.
> 
> I would think, however, that the big issue would be the licensing concerns.

Yeah. It's full GPL. There's nothing wrong with linking PoDoFo to it or
providing the facility to do so, but any PoDoFo user using a copy of
PoDoFo with support for using poppler enabled would have to follow the
rules of the full GPL, not just the lesser/library GPL.

-- 
Craig Ringer


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