-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/07/2014 10:05 PM, Tim Harder wrote: > On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >>>> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, >>>> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as >>>> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing >>>> gcj would therefore be a real loss. >>> As long as you're fine with any command-line pdf processing >>> tool, you could use app-text/cpdf which I've used for a long >>> time and just added to the tree. Note that it's licensed under >>> a non-commercial type license though. > >> Why would we want to replace a working GPL-2 application for an >> application under a non-free license? As one of the users of >> app-text/pdftk I'm not a big supporter of this (although I have >> not looked into mcpdf as was brought up earlier in this thread, >> although that as well seems to be under a more restrictive AGPL-3 >> license). > > I'm not saying it's a replacement, it's an alternative. Also, some > of us are less picky about licensing issues as long as the source > code is available and free for personal use. :)
By all means, thanks for informing about an alternative, but I personally believe that it is important for the overall distribution to keep a wider perspective than personal non-free use (even if this is a developers primary focus as reason for contribution), otherwise we'll hit a wall quickly enough. In this specific case I at least use pdftk for some batch jobs on business-related servers and a non-commercial license would not be viable. - -- Kristian Fiskerstrand Public PGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUhMTtAAoJEPw7F94F4Tagn10P/R2gwMiIY+e4lziLeeV00o5R J+u9VStV34Hbl38KuinwQOMZR3ZyBv1NY0wvTB185S6GdsrXX2kNUK2iIyAL+5PN aiOrVbvskIaeiHI1aBaWVminFIuXf+ZEcR0/qGRXnLWqeQrXjhBWeaQUooXy1t9S FPkzSgfHjBxtWjRRrPCEhgVY4IqQDFXbTAIg86hkYHZENXfTAURMC2Xg/fRjl+Uo OHkaJSyh+LsHKOwwTUpGjd9RLpVA1JV/Hr+vTPIEdFEcUcegmFJ6xza1qzG3WevH LPkiebx427R7goDkiEe+cjQXBAS/Rt2Hi8gYJdVfPgYqIf+qZlfuUMg6AprqCr6S +Q7ppK3zF57doakAMQnmgNscctTzIuD2iZz0paiQFnJhX2vayO8CRVLg3mQhFsL2 pW2NaPrDU1y1ONRGQlDWEcHzhwbkeO9e4vZPm4eYLYLuLsO2voQaVeWts8JFeH59 7Yy1XdXPQVyxKZUK0QNoIB9PC/bzyFhjZLvSAc5Z4J7Aqkktuf16FmvQavJuNBd6 IBL2lnU+mdo3xTIGbwi1Sfu/pfFkZ/NvQDHE70PaAnUlxZyS3vkAq7RehHsBMZ3J syne19H7EFjSRZToTd8GRqyuhLzAYC/rd6NS2isppbJeKE3NHw2ercL8jXEusosP gIXiLmbLh0wpIUynexgJ =QVxo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
