El dijous, 29 de novembre de 2018, a les 15:46:00 CET, Tobias Deiminger va escriure: > Am 28.11.2018 23:18 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > >> a) "I won't do any poppler patches during the next 6 months > >> and won't need the copy during that time. You can give the > >> copy to someone else during these 6 months." > > > > Sorry for being annoying here, but what happens after those 6 months? > > can he contribute back without needing a "license"? > > No problem, let's try to figure it out. IANAL, but as far as I > understand contributing to poppler is generally not related to owning a > copy of the PDF standard. The exception is citing - e.g. if you want to > copy paragraphs word by word into source code or issue comments, you > need a copy of the standard. Considering the 6 months example above, if > you want to contribute a bugfix after you gave the copy away, you just > do it. But if you need to cite the standard or need to learn something > new from it, you write KDE and say "can you please reassign a copy to > me". If you have different opinion or doubts, please explain a bit, then > I can ask DIN again. > > > I mean i very seldom read the PDF spec since most of the times bugs i'm > > fixing are just that bugs, not missing spec features or misimplemented > > spec > > features that actually need me to read the spec. > > My primary use case of the standard is learning, i.e. I often have > poppler source code on the left and the standard on the right, because > the code is closely written along the standard wrt. terminology, data > structures and algorithms. Imo it's good practice, new code should also > follow it. However using the standard for that purpose is just my > preferred method, one could use books or years of experience instead. > > > You can do it. You're as much a KDE developer as I am :) > > Ok, will CC you then. Any idea how much copies would be appropriate?
I'd say 6 would probably be more than enough. Other opinions? Cheers, Albert > > Cheers > Tobias > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
