Re: DRM in PDF readers

2005-03-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:01:15PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hello, > > I recently adopted pdftohtml, a program to translate PDF documents into > HTML. It is a derivative of xpdf. I am now asked to override the DRM > tests (current code checks for "don't copy me" pdf flag and aborts if > s

Re: Help: Copyright notice

2005-03-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:31:35 -0500 Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hi guys, > > It's me again :-) > I asked my team aobut using a dual license, GPL / CC-BY. So far the > response has been good. Several people have said "yay" and no one has > said "nay". Really wonderful! :- > We are currently dr

DRM in PDF readers

2005-03-12 Thread Frederic Peters
Hello, I recently adopted pdftohtml, a program to translate PDF documents into HTML. It is a derivative of xpdf. I am now asked to override the DRM tests (current code checks for "don't copy me" pdf flag and aborts if set). It is easy patching to disable this but in the course of the bug report

Re: GPL for documentation ?

2005-03-12 Thread Gervase Markham
Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Gervase Markham wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: What about it? If the combination in question of the GPLed work and your work is a derived work, then the GPL covers the work as a whole. So is a WP a derived work of a dictionary? IMO, it's much harder to make th