Re: [pdf-devel] Re: about the licence

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Yavor Doganov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Poppler is a major technical obstacle towards the adoption of (L)GPLv3
> (by "technical" I mean when the copyright holders wish to use the new
> licenses, but they cannot for compatibility issues because of the
> libraries they use).  I'd wish it was the only one, but it's not.

It's not the only issue no, but we're open to relicensing Ghostscript
GPLv2+ if it would be useful to the community. We've not done so yet,
but gnupdf isn't the only way of resolving this particular "technical"
barrier.

 -r