[poppler] Poppler in GPL version 3?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts, 16 de febrer de 2010, Johnny Mariéthoz va escriure:
> Dear all,
> 
> we are actually developing a new web based viewer for bibliographic
> documents. This viewer will support pdf documents and we have plan to use
> poppler for that purpose. The web application will be in two parts: the
> client part in javascript and the server part in python. Poppler will be
> used by the server part.
> 
> We want to release our code in AGPL version 3:
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
> This license is similar than the GPL version 3 except that it force to open
> the sources for a web based service.
> 
> Unfortunately, AGPL license can not be used with the GPL version 2, but is
> compatible with the GPL version 3.
> 
> Do you have plan to release poppler under the GPL version 3?

Poppler is based in XPDF sources that are GPL version 2, so you first need to 
get the XPDF author to release a GPL2 and GPL3 version.

If you are interested in that i recommend contacting him.

Albert

> 
> Many thanks in advance for your answers and for your work on this nice
> project.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
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