[poppler] PDF 2.0 Spec (answer from FSFE)

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 6 de març de 2019, a les 20:58:14 CET, William Bader va escriure:
> > I guess the question is also, would those orgs accept us as members? I mean i may not have any issue being part of X but why would X want me if i am really not part of their community?
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> Don't all of those groups have major packages that depend on poppler?

Sure, but most of those organizations have requirements in their by-laws about which people can be accepted, like "needs to have N commits to prject" or something similar.

The fact that they really like us, doesn't always mean they can (even legally) accept us as members.

Cheers,
  Albert

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> If you drag a PDF onto a gnome or kde desktop, do they use poppler to make the preview?
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> Those groups all benefit from having poppler keep current with the PDF standard.
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> If their options are 1) do nothing and don't support new PDFs, 2) divert development from their core projects to patch poppler, or 3) give you the spec and let you update poppler with no cost to them,
> the question is why wouldn't they want to help you.
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> Regards,
> William
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