Re: xpdf?

[Paolo Molaro <lupus lettere unipd it>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 11:47:45AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone working on converting xpdf to a gtk-based application?
> > It is using a C++-based custom toolkit named 'ltk', i guess it 
> > could be transported...
> 
> xpdf is released on a license that is not compatible with the goals of
> the GNOME project: it does not allow modification of xpdf.
> 
> I would be very happy  if someone contacted the xpdf author and asked
> him to release his code under an OpenSource compliant license.

The author of xpdf changed the license a few days ago after a
discussion on debian-devel: it's GPL now (I don't kbnow if he released
a version with the new license already).

lupus

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