Re: Poppler vs. LGPL

[Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse claws-mail org>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:52:49 -0400
Mike <msg msu edu> wrote:

> Ask the author[s] to release it also in LGPL?

Actually poppler lib is a fork of xpdf which is strictly GPL-2. (strictly mean
also the author is deaf)

> John Boncek wrote:
> > The Poppler library has been recommended in this list for in-application
> > display of PDF files.  However, Poppler is issued under the Gnu General
> > Public License (GPL), unlike Gtk+, which is under the LGPL.  This makes it
> > unusable in a project using only LGPL and similarly-licensed works.  Is
> > there any LGPL solution?

A choice could be here http://www.glyphandcog.com/buy.html