Common xpdf version for GNOME and KDE

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:46 +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:36, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:42:51AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi Havoc,
> >
> > > > Furthermore a common-xpdf mailing list for discussion would be quite
> > > > usefull.
> > >
> > > It's a good idea. I wonder if you should do copyright assignment on it,
> > > so in principle you could eventually assign fixes back to the upstream
> > > guy and preserve his dual-license business.
> >
> > If I want to do copyright assignments I'd use the BSD license ;)
> > GPL is the way to go IMHO and as a project on _free_desktop.org we
> > should keep it.
> 
> So you are already sure that you don't want your changes folded back in the 
> upstream version in the future? Otherwise I would give this some more 
> thought.
> 

It is a good thought though that just using an X-style license might
have the same effect, without requiring the copyright assignment
paperwork. Depends on how the upstream guy feels about it.

Havoc