[poppler] Likelihood of licensing Poppler to LGPL or other permissive open source licenses in the future

[Germán Poo-Caamaño]

On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 14:20 +0330, Reza Hasanzadeh wrote:
> Hey there,
> I noticed that Poppler is licensed under the terms of GPLv2 and
> GPLv3, so I thought it might be an option to release Poppler under
> less protective licenses like LGPL or MPL  just like Cairo or other
> (major) libraries. Are there any reasons or considerations to this
> licensing choice?

Poppler is a fork of Xpdf, which is GPL.

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
https://calcifer.org/


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