On Friday 21 January 2011 12:18:26 Hamish wrote: > Package: calibre > Followup-For: Bug #609581 > > fwiw, some background history and modern day reading.. > > - poppler is a fork of xpdf, which (apparently) at the time of forking > was GPL2 only. thus poppler became GPL2 only as well. > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/README > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/README-XPDF
true. > - in the mean time, xpdf, under the same author/company, and in the advent > of GPL3, has now become GPL2+. > author contact: Derek B. Noonburg <derekn foolabs com> > but that little "+" was missing at the time of poppler forking. > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.02-12/xpdf.co > pyright Erm? do you have any authorative souces for that? upstream homepage is very clear that it is gplv2only. I think that there is a bug in the xpdf copyright file. CC'ing xpdf > I ack the problem, but it all seems a little academic.. If your facts is correct, then I would agree. But I cannot find any sources to back up that claim. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
