On Friday 02 September 2011 13:32:35 Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
Am Freitag, 2. September 2011, 13:58:52 schrieb Matthias Kirschner:
- Hannes Hauswedell h2@fsfe.org [2011-08-31 22:49:18 +0200]:
"Conditions for PDF-Readers"
To be listed on this page a PDF reading software must fulfil certain conditions. First and foremost it has to be Free Software[link to our definition]. This includes -- but is not limited to -- the software component responsible for rendering the PDF (e.g. Skim[link] does not qualify, because it uses a proprietary library for PDF rendering).
In our technical definition we should make clear that we mean "additional" libraries for proprieary systems. Check out the Gnu GPL line on this., The components that normally come with _all_ versions of a proprietary operating systems can be used by Free Software on it, even with the GNU GPL. We should not get stronger than this.
I don't know what library Skim uses so I cannot say, but the criteria should be understandable, otherwise people will rule out all pdf readers on proprietary platforms. They all use proprietary libraries at least some.
Currently we only cover regular desktop PDF-Readers. Software for editing, converting or creating PDFs is not listed; Software for mobile platforms is not listed and web-applications ("Software as a Service") are not either.
Note that most of my laptops are quite "mobile" and can deal with networks connections being there or not and changing, so "mobile" does not seem to be a fitting term. If you mean small handheld devices or touch screen usage, please say so. :) (My company did an application called Kontact Touch, which can be used on mobile and immobile machines.)
Thanks for progressing here, this is hard, but important work! I hope my comments are useful!
Best, Bernhard