Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Great Display System

[Johan Rydberg]

Loic Dachary wrote:
> 
>         Hi,

Hi!  Sorry for the delay, but I have been out of the office for some weeks.
 
>         Could you, please provide a URL where we can look at the current
> version of the software ? Just re-submit your project with the URL.

I have just started working on it, so there's really nothing for you to see.
But I could make a tar-archive available with the current sources (which can
not be run or something like that) if you want to.

(I will probably re-submit my project anyway, since I found out that there
already exist a project called GDS (Gnome Development Studio or something
like that.))

>         Also I'd like to point out that PDF is a proprietary format
> (see the license terms at
> http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf).

Yes, I know.  And from reading the license terms in that document I see no
problem with either creating a software that displays and constructs 
PDF-documents.

> Therefore
> you may want to provide support for an alternative format that does not
> have the same restrictions. 

One of my goal is also to support SVG.

> Note that if a functionality of your software
> is dependent of PDF and cannot be used with any other supported format, it
> will be bound to the will of Adobe, now and forever.

The functionality of the application will NOT depend on PDF - it will just
support it.  It will also support TIFF images in the same manner.

brgrds,
johan