[poppler] Fw: Win32 poppler-qt4

[Carlos Rega]

I meant to copy this to the list too.



----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Carlos Rega <carlos_rega at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: Pete Lindsey <pete.lindsey at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Fri, 17 December, 2010 10:22:07
> Subject: Re: [poppler] Win32 poppler-qt4
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> >From: Pete Lindsey <pete.lindsey at hotmail.com>
> >To: aacid at kde.org; poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Sent:  Fri, 17 December, 2010 9:04:20
> >Subject: Re: [poppler] Win32  poppler-qt4
> 
> > I have no problems sharing my code, though I doubt  anyone will use it, I am 

> >just trying to put together an app that lets me  do book marking and linking 
>on 
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> >PDF documents that doesn't actually  change the pdf document (uses a database 

> >instead) and allows for multi  target urls to be drawn on the actual 
>interface... 
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> >but I am  pretty sure you are not allowed to sell anything that is open  
>source
> >
> Albert is right, you definitely can sell open source, Red Hat,  Suse and many 
> others make a pretty good living out of seling open source.  There are many 
> different open source licences, and it would be difficult to  give a 
> comprehensive summary here. In a nutshel, the GPL requires that if  you 
> distribute applications licensed under the GPL, or applications that use  code 

> licensed under the GPL then you must make the code available to any  users that 
>
> you distribute the application to. Note that there is no mention  of charge for 
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> the code. The freedom in the GPL is the freedom of the user to  see and modify 

> the code of the application they receive, but they can be  charged for it.
> 
> In reality what tends to happen is that people that sell  open source don't 
>sell 
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> licences for the app as such, like MS and others do,  but they sell support 
> services, as the code is allways  available.
> 
> Hope this helps, and I haven't make any serious mistakes in my  explanation.
> 
> Carlos
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