Dear Pascal,
On 8 December 2012 20:58, Pascal Wittmann mail@pascal-wittmann.de wrote:
with this mail I forward you the answer of the author of llpp.
Thank you for your work on this.
However, I feel that the program should actually be accompanied by a proper licence notice making this clear. We cannot in good conscience recommend software that does not make its freeness status clear to the people who obtain the software.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: licence of llpp Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 23:17:02 +0400 (MSK) From: malc av1474@comtv.ru To: Pascal Wittmann mail@pascal-wittmann.de
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Pascal Wittmann wrote:
Hi,
I am a regular user of llpp and try to promote it whenever possible. I have recently proposed it for pdfreaders.org, a website that promotes free pdf readers and is powered by the FSFE [1].
Thanks.
The pdfreaders.org-team is contemplating llpp, but to make a decision the licensing needs some clarification. I could only find information about llpp's licence on sites different from the actual project site (namely [2]) and there is no licence file in the repository.
It would be cool, if you could clarify this.
Best regards, Pascal
The code is in public domain (the bits i have written anyways), the compiled binary, by the virtue of depending on GPLed MuPDF, is GPL as far as i understand.
Hope that clarifies things.
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Sincerely yours,
Hi Heiki,
* Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild repentinus@fsfe.org [2012-12-09 18:30:40 +0000]:
On 8 December 2012 20:58, Pascal Wittmann mail@pascal-wittmann.de wrote:
with this mail I forward you the answer of the author of llpp.
Thank you for your work on this.
However, I feel that the program should actually be accompanied by a proper licence notice making this clear. We cannot in good conscience recommend software that does not make its freeness status clear to the people who obtain the software.
Good answers so far. I am very happy that you took that over!!!
Thanks! Matthias