I was fairly certain that XPDF external was/is based on this XPDF: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf Which has both GPL and Proprietary Licensing options available.
The newer (> 9.6.3) PDF Widget is based on PDFium which is an offshoot project that spawned from Google’s Chromium project. I’m not sure about the licensing involved with that. If you’re running macOS I released a (semi-complete) library that uses Apple PDFKit (not to be confused with several other PDFKits that are out there, such as this JS PDFKit: https://pdfkit.org ). That can extract text from PDF, per-document or per-page. At some point I may update that library, adding the ability to extract RTF styled text and also make iso it can use UIView, which would make available on iOS devices too, but I’m really busy right now so that’s not likely to get attention from me anytime soon. On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:47 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Richmond wrote: > > > On 12.12.21 21:33, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Stam Kapetanakis wrote: > >> > i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but > >> > don’t know for sure. > >> > >> If it is that would be problematic, as the open source edition of > >> xpdfReader is licensed under GPL, and LC no longer has an edition > >> compatible with GPL. > > > > The consequences are endless. > > Note my "if". > > In the next message in this thread Paul clarified that the component is > not derived from a GPL-governed work, so the rights and responsibilities > of the GPL do not apply here: > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2021-December/266435.html > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
