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On 12/07/2014 10:05 PM, Tim Harder wrote: |
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> On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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>>>> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, |
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>>>> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as |
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>>>> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing |
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>>>> gcj would therefore be a real loss. |
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>>> As long as you're fine with any command-line pdf processing |
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>>> tool, you could use app-text/cpdf which I've used for a long |
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>>> time and just added to the tree. Note that it's licensed under |
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>>> a non-commercial type license though. |
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>> Why would we want to replace a working GPL-2 application for an |
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>> application under a non-free license? As one of the users of |
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>> app-text/pdftk I'm not a big supporter of this (although I have |
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>> not looked into mcpdf as was brought up earlier in this thread, |
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>> although that as well seems to be under a more restrictive AGPL-3 |
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>> license). |
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> I'm not saying it's a replacement, it's an alternative. Also, some |
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> of us are less picky about licensing issues as long as the source |
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> code is available and free for personal use. :) |
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By all means, thanks for informing about an alternative, but I |
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personally believe that it is important for the overall distribution |
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to keep a wider perspective than personal non-free use (even if this |
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is a developers primary focus as reason for contribution), otherwise |
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we'll hit a wall quickly enough. |
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In this specific case I at least use pdftk for some batch jobs on |
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business-related servers and a non-commercial license would not be |
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viable. |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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