Paolo Cavallini wrote:
So the question is: is there a free (as speech) and Open Source full blown PDF viewer? I think OSGeo is about open source software.
I'm a F/OSS developer, so I'm going to use my standard answer: "What's keeping you from adding OCG support to Evince?" *LOL* My own library iText is 'free' as in 'free beer'; although it is available under the MPL/LGPL it's supposed to be free as in 'free speech' too, but I don't agree with the FSF argument that Licensed Software (any license: GPL, LGPL, MPL,...) is free as in 'free speech'. If it were, companies using iText wouldn't keep on harassing me about the license (and about the fact that they don't like the MPL/LGPL). If iText were really Free, they wouldn't have any reason for not using iText. I interpret the 'Free' in 'Free Software' as 'Free to pay for value' (Google for 'Voluntary Economies'). But than again: companies like Google for instance use iText in many different project but they've never paid anything for using it. That's why when people lecture me about 'Free Software' annoy me: most of them USE F/OSS for free (as in Free Beer), but the number of people CONTRIBUTING (*) source or PAYING for value is very limited. (*) By the way: this is the list of people who contributed code to the iText project: http://www.1t3xt.com/about/acknowledgments/index.php br, Bruno _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
