Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi,

On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:21:50 +0100 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
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> On 12/07/2014 10:05 PM, Tim Harder wrote:
> > On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> >>>> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately,
> >>>> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as
> >>>> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing
> >>>> gcj would therefore be a real loss.
> >>> As long as you're fine with any command-line pdf processing
> >>> tool, you could use app-text/cpdf which I've used for a long
> >>> time and just added to the tree. Note that it's licensed under
> >>> a non-commercial type license though.
> >
> >> Why would we want to replace a working GPL-2 application for an
> >> application under a non-free license? As one of the users of
> >> app-text/pdftk I'm not a big supporter of this (although I have
> >> not looked into mcpdf as was brought up earlier in this thread,
> >> although that as well seems to be under a more restrictive AGPL-3
> >> license).
> >
> > I'm not saying it's a replacement, it's an alternative. Also, some
> > of us are less picky about licensing issues as long as the source
> > code is available and free for personal use. :)
>
> By all means, thanks for informing about an alternative, but I
> personally believe that it is important for the overall distribution
> to keep a wider perspective than personal non-free use (even if this
> is a developers primary focus as reason for contribution), otherwise
> we'll hit a wall quickly enough.
>
> In this specific case I at least use pdftk for some batch jobs on
> business-related servers and a non-commercial license would not be
> viable.

Seconded here. Now and then I use pdftk for some conversions for my
job, so non-commercial licensed alternative is a no go.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko