On Jan 15, 1:42 am, nicolas vigier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Our application, (the client part) has a list of documents in it, > > which the users can double click. We would like the double click to > > open a piece of software (currently a hosted adobe reader, which is > > slow, terrible and has a multitude of issues), and replace this with > > the GPL sumatra code. Our application would "launch" the GPL code > > section, but do nothing else than use it. > > I think that if you make it clear that your software and the pdf viewer > are separate programs, then there is no problem, there is no chance > that your software can be considered a derivative work of the pdf viewer. > > However if you make this GPL code live in the same process as your > software (by using dynamic libraries for instance, instead of starting > an other process with the file you want to open as an argument) this is > not so clear.
Thank you very much everyone for your input, I do appreciate it. Certainly given me some food for thought. It's interesting to see what open source can achieve when given a goal to achieve. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
