On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 08:33, zyx <z...@gmx.us> wrote: > PoDoFo is an Open Source project and will stay that way
Sure thing, and not only: it will stay copyleft dual licensed LGPL2+/MPL2. > If you mean that the closed source forks of it with internal modifications > would have a complication and that makes you feel the LGPL dependency > would be a problem for such companies, As I stated previously, the only real issue with LGPL for honest/good willing companies is static linking. Consider companies that consciously want violate the LGPL requirements can do it today, they don't have to wait us to complete the dual licensing. > I agree with this, especially if it'll mean to have one less dependency > (I do not recall for what all the libidn is used in the PoDoFo, I'm > only lurking on the mailing list for the many past months). Libidn is just used for that "stringprep" function, which is a requirement for PDF encryption. > I'm sorry, I feel dumb, I do not follow. [...] > I agree it's a good thing to allow users build the project against a > distro-provided software/packages [...] Me neither I I could understand this one/follow you :) . If you have any doubt please write me personally or ask me informally on gitter[1]. Regards, Francesco [1] https://gitter.im/podofo/community _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
