Hi José, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 19:53 +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > Hi Gustavo. > > What does this mean? > > This basically means that the FSF does no longer consider GNU PDF a > high-priority project. This is because other projects already covered > some of the issues that motivated this project, namely: support for > interactive PDF facilities and the lack of a GPLv3 implementation. Now > poppler supports many of the interactive stuff, and both ghostscript and > xpdf are distributed under the GPLv3. > > I got consulted about this and did not object to the removal of the > project from the list. I also advised to not do a press release like > the one you read, but without success. The high-priority list is now > the bussiness of the FSF. It is up to them to decide what to list and > what not. > > I reckon the FSF communicate may be confusing. It is obvious that the > project is not "done" at all and that not all the issues motivating it > have been solved.
What was solved? What wasn't? > We still want to provide a GPLv3+ library > implementing a stack equivalent to the Acrobat SDK, even if we are no > longer in the top-ten list of the FSF. > > Hope this clarified the situation. > So, we're still on the go but don't know clearly what for. How can we be sure we're not duplicating efforts? I must confess that I have had problems understanding the project's goals. I just didn't want to disturb with questions very early. The FSF communicate just added to the confusion. Regards, Gustavo.
