On 13 Feb 2008, at 3:07 PM, roberto franceschini wrote: >> Hi to all. >> I find skim to be a very smart piece of software. Since it is >> opensource, I was wandering if a "port" or some "code borrowing" >> could be effective in the attempt to have a "skim for linux". >> >> What you think about letting the penguin benefit of skim? How this >> could be done? >> PDFedit and Okular, IMHO the two more advanced solution for PDF >> annotations in linux, are light-years away from the skim level, thus >> I believe a sort of collaboration could be useful to them. >> >> Bye >> Roberto
On 2/13/08 9:45 AM, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > I'm not sure what you're asking here. If you're asking if we (read I) > are willing to develop a Linux port, the answer is a definite no. If > you're asking whether you or some other Linux developers are allowed > to borrow code and ideas from Skim, the answer should be obvious: it's > open source software and accessible under the New BSD License that is > included in every source file of the project. > > Christiaan Yes, and Skim is based on the underlying Macintosh/Apple PDFKit, so Roberto's path would be an entirely different application underneath. Skim's primary features, however, are -- in the abstract -- rather transparent basic functionality which could be replicated on other OS'es. That is, there are open-source PDF libraries, there are open-source drawing libraries, and so on. Again, Roberto's development path would be far from the Mac OS thing we all love...Skim. Skim, like other great applications, is, however, greater than the sum of its parts. Skim is well-designed, which has little to do with those abstract function. Skim is responsive, Skim is well-maintained, Skim is integrated...all things that a human did, not some code. Anyway, I wish that everyone, on every platform, had a Skim. And, if someone wants to do the work, they could. (Just not *our* Skim! :) -- Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
