El Dijous, 8 d'agost de 2013, a les 04:45:35, Yury G. Kudryashov va escriure: > shravan setty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to use Poppler - PDFtoCairo to convert pdf documents to > > jpegs. I am interested in knowing the licensing information for commercial > > use. It would be great if you can provide me some information on it. > > Disclaimer: I'm neither a poppler developer nor a lawyer. If my > interpretation below is incorrect, I hope that one of the devs will comment. > > Poppler is licensed under GPLv2+.
That's not correct, it's either GPLv2 or GPLv2+GPLv3 (depending who you ask), but never GPLv2+ Cheers, Albert > Basically, this means the following: > - If you link to libpoppler, then your executable must be GPLv<n>, n >= 2. > In particular, if you distribute the binary, you should provide the full > source code on request. > - If you distribute a modified version of libpoppler, then you must provide > all your patches on request. > - If you distribute an unmodified version of libpoppler with or without > utils, then you should tell users that this utility is GPLv2+ and they can > obtain source code from poppler.freedesktop.org. > - If you just use one of the utilities (pdftocairo or any other) for any > purpose (commercial or non-commercial) on your own servers, then just use > it. > > There are some corner cases like using a modified version of pdftocairo > inside a web-app. As far as I know, in this case you may hide your patches > but it is better to send them upstream. > > P.S.: Learn to use Subject: header in e-mail. _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
