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"Please note that xpdf, and thus poppler, is licensed under the GPL, not the LGPL. Consequently, any application using poppler must also be licensed under the
by flakiness 3y ago
"Please note that xpdf, and thus poppler, is licensed under the GPL,
not the LGPL. Consequently, any application using poppler must also
be licensed under the GPL." [1]
I hope they have a more forgiving licence. PDFium [2] is Apache License, but its Chromium dependency makes it harder to work with.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler
[2] https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/ https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/
- raspyberr 3y ago>GPL. I hope they have a more forgiving licence. Sad state of the modern developer.
- Rochus 3y ago> "Consequently, any application using poppler must also be licensed under the GPL." This is not generally true. If your application e.g. just uses a command line tool like pdftotext it can well have another license than GPL, even a proprietary license.
- gumby 3y agoTo clarify: when you say "just uses a command line tool" you mean "uses a program by starting it in the normal way in anther process and communicates via its human interface". No calling into its image. I'm sure you know this, Rochus, but a naive read if your comment is not clear.
- Rochus 3y agoRight. Whether it's a human or a machine readable/operable interface is not relevant. The relevant part is "using a regular interface without linking", as you just do when you use their command line tools.