Bug#609581: calibre: summary of upstreams

2011-01-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Friday 21 January 2011 12:18:26 Hamish wrote: > Package: calibre > Followup-For: Bug #609581 > > fwiw, some background history and modern day reading.. > > - poppler is a fork of xpdf, which (apparently) at the time of forking > was GPL2 only. thus poppler became GPL2 only as well. > http://cg

Bug#609581: calibre: summary of upstreams

2011-01-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Hamish , 2011-01-22, 00:18: - in the mean time, xpdf, under the same author/company, and in the advent of GPL3, has now become GPL2+. Any references for this? As far as I can see, the last release of xpdf was 3.02 (in 2007), and its README doesn't say anything about later versions of GPL. T

Bug#609581: calibre: summary of upstreams

2011-01-21 Thread Hamish
Package: calibre Followup-For: Bug #609581 fwiw, some background history and modern day reading.. - poppler is a fork of xpdf, which (apparently) at the time of forking was GPL2 only. thus poppler became GPL2 only as well. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/README http://cgit.freede