Common xpdf version for GNOME and KDE

[Albert Astals Cid]

I've contacted several times xpdf author, some went like

"Hi Derek i have that small patch that fixes foo"
->
"Hi Albert the development code is now much different so your code is 
worthless, but thanks anyway"

and others like

"Hi Derek hi have this rather big patch that changes char * usage to const 
char * usage to reduce gcc warnings"
->
"Hi Albert but i don't give a damn about gcc warnings so your code is 
worthless, thanks anyway"

What i mean is that he is unlikely to want any of our changes so IMHO we can 
go with GPL.

Albert

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 05:46:52, 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
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