[poppler] Win32 poppler-qt4

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Dec 17 10:56:51 PST 2010


A Divendres, 17 de desembre de 2010, Pete Lindsey va escriure:
> 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 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... 

It's not that we want your code is that you have to follow the licenses of the 
other software you use.

> but I am pretty sure you are not allowed to sell anything that is open 
source

Check your sources, you are totally allowed to sell anything that is open 
source (for most definitions of open source, that is).

Albert

> 
> > From: aacid at kde.org
> > To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:50:01 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [poppler] Win32 poppler-qt4
> > 
> > A Divendres, 17 de desembre de 2010, vàreu escriure:
> > > Hmmmm, generally I thought that it meant that if you use the library
> > > you have to include the libraries' GPL license and not sell any
> > > software based on that code...
> > 
> > According to most people (i.e. i'm not a lawyer and this is not a legal
> > advice) it means any software using GPL libraries has to be under the GPL
> > too. The GPL has nothing to do with selling the software and much to do
> > about code availability, i suggest you to give it a quick read.
> > 
> > > why?
> > 
> > Well, you said it was your first time with Open Source, it is important
> > for me as a Open Source developer that the licenses are respected.
> > 
> > Albert
> > 
> > > > From: aacid at kde.org
> > > > To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:28:23 +0000
> > > > Subject: Re: [poppler] Win32 poppler-qt4
> > > > 
> > > > A Dijous, 16 de desembre de 2010, Pete Lindsey va escriure:
> > > > > can someone please help me make a working poppler-qt4.lib for
> > > > > Win32?? I have built the files from the .15.3 code base  and the
> > > > > .14.5 codebase, both with there own sets of problems but I (not
> > > > > knowing what I am doing) muddled through them... ultimately I end
> > > > > up with the same problem, "Undefined References" I gather this
> > > > > means unusable libraries, (can't even get .15.3 to complete the
> > > > > build because it tells me cannot export (random characters) <some
> > > > > pieces of function names> : symbol not found. I must be doing
> > > > > something fundamentally wrong, effectively what I need to be able
> > > > > to do is render PDFs and search for text within a QT app that I am
> > > > > developing, (can't use ghostscript because of the text)... I have
> > > > > never messed with building open source on windows and frankly I
> > > > > feel like I have been walking through the sewers for the last 2
> > > > > weeks, but I am banging my head on the wall.... Can ANYONE help
> > > > > me?? Thanks in advance
> > > > 
> > > > Are you aware of what the poppler license is and what it means?
> > > > 
> > > > Albert
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