[poppler] PDF 2.0 Spec

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 29 de novembre de 2018, a les 15:46:00 CET, Tobias Deiminger va escriure:
> Am 28.11.2018 23:18 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> >> a) "I won't do any poppler patches during the next 6 months
> >> and won't need the copy during that time. You can give the
> >> copy to someone else during these 6 months."
> > 
> > Sorry for being annoying here, but what happens after those 6 months?
> > can he contribute back without needing a "license"?
> 
> No problem, let's try to figure it out. IANAL, but as far as I 
> understand contributing to poppler is generally not related to owning a 
> copy of the PDF standard. The exception is citing - e.g. if you want to 
> copy paragraphs word by word into source code or issue comments, you 
> need a copy of the standard. Considering the 6 months example above, if 
> you want to contribute a bugfix after you gave the copy away, you just 
> do it. But if you need to cite the standard or need to learn something 
> new from it, you write KDE and say "can you please reassign a copy to 
> me". If you have different opinion or doubts, please explain a bit, then 
> I can ask DIN again.
> 
> > I mean i very seldom read the PDF spec since most of the times bugs i'm
> > fixing are just that bugs, not missing spec features or misimplemented 
> > spec
> > features that actually need me to read the spec.
> 
> My primary use case of the standard is learning, i.e. I often have 
> poppler source code on the left and the standard on the right, because 
> the code is closely written along the standard wrt. terminology, data 
> structures and algorithms. Imo it's good practice, new code should also 
> follow it. However using the standard for that purpose is just my 
> preferred method, one could use books or years of experience instead.
> 
> > You can do it. You're as much a KDE developer as I am :)
> 
> Ok, will CC you then. Any idea how much copies would be appropriate?

I'd say 6 would probably be more than enough. Other opinions?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers
> Tobias
>