[poppler] commercial license

[Brad Hards]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:55:11 AM Brad Hards wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 05:43:34 PM Radu Braniste wrote:
> > Is it possible to get a commercial license for poppler?
> > My understanding was that GPL licensing is inherited from xpdf, but Glyph
> > &
> > Cog (copyright holders of xpdf) are stating that: "Poppler is an open
> > source derivative of Xpdf, licensed under the GPL. Glyph & Cog does not
> > own
> > the copyright to the changes that the Poppler project has made to Xpdf, so
> > we are not able to license Poppler."
> 
> There is no commercial license for poppler.
> 
I should have been clearer.  The GPL can be used in any software (including 
"commercial" software), as long as you are willing to meet the GPL conditions. 
Poppler authors put in a lot of work and share their code.

However I think you are looking for a way to avoid the GPL conditions (or as I 
like to think of it, the mutual agreement to share). If that is the case, 
there is no such license.

You could license the Glyph and Cog Xpdf code, or you could choose another 
software package, or you could license your software under a GPL-compatible 
license.

Brad