Hi; > > The problem is not only with third-party apps that use the platform. > > There are also some significant GPLv2 only libraries that GNOME apps > > may want to use. As examples, Poppler and ClamAV come to my mind. > > Incidentally, this is one of the major reasons that GNU PDF was made a > high priority project by the FSF: besides implementing a broader > subset of PDF, but to have it be LGPLvN+. Currently N is 3 for GNU > PDF, but also currently I hear poppler does a better job at what it > does.
I can't be the only one who was excited about discovering there's a LGPL3+ pdf library out there! I work a bit on evince, and I had never heard about it. However, the excitement was brief, and terminated by actually checking out the code... Also, it seems libgnupdf is GPL3+, not *L*GPL. I was pointed to mupdf [http://mupdf.com/] which is GPL3+ and seems a bit further along, but not quite as good a poppler; also it's not using cairo (it has its own drawing system, and apparently no cairo impl of it exists so far)... > Still, given that GLib is not breaking ABI, it doesn't seem that > LGPLv3+ is an option for it. We should however (IMO) promote GPLv3+ > for applications, where possible. With my GNOME maintainer hat on, I already switched aisleriot to GPL3+ some time ago, and plan to do the same with my other app modules soon. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
