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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:02:22
Message-Id: 5484B23B.9040600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing by Tim Harder
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4 On 12/07/2014 07:45 PM, Tim Harder wrote:
5 > On 2014-12-07 13:15, Martin Vaeth wrote:
6 >> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately,
7 >> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as
8 >> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing gcj
9 >> would therefore be a real loss.
10 >
11 > As long as you're fine with any command-line pdf processing tool,
12 > you could use app-text/cpdf which I've used for a long time and
13 > just added to the tree.
14 >
15 > Note that it's licensed under a non-commercial type license
16 > though.
17
18 Why would we want to replace a working GPL-2 application for an
19 application under a non-free license? As one of the users of
20 app-text/pdftk I'm not a big supporter of this (although I have not
21 looked into mcpdf as was brought up earlier in this thread, although
22 that as well seems to be under a more restrictive AGPL-3 license).
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>