[poppler] Decryption bugfix

Kristian Høgsberg krh at bitplanet.net
Wed Mar 16 11:00:12 PST 2005


Bryan Clark wrote:
> I have no idea if Derek is on this list or not.  I'm guessing he's not.
> If the patch could be applied to the xpdf core then I'm sure he'd
> appreciate it and it would be the nice thing to do since we're using a
> lot of his codebase.
> 
> I've corresponded with him before, so here's how I figure it works: 
> 
> 	There is an issue of copyright assignment, Derek and foolabs need total
> copyright control over the xpdf code.  Since there isn't a copyright
> assignment system setup for them, I'm expecting they'd setup the system
> for us, we can just send him patches directly.
> 
> 	Derek has been reimplementing many of the patches sent to him
> previously to maintain copyright control.  I think it's best if you send
> a quick message describing what the problem was and what the patch does
> to fix it with a link to the patch.  This way he can reimplement it if
> he'd like to take advantage of it.
> 
> 	If the patch adds dependencies to other libraries then Derek is
> probably not going to be interested, but I doubt there's harm in sending
> it anyway.  That's up to you.

Yup, that's the general procedure.  For this patch, I'd say none of it 
is needed since it's only a couple of lines, but I'm sure Derek would be 
interested.

Kristian


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