From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4848DF56.8000004@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:55:18 +0200 From: Till Kamppeter MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <484794CF.10300@gmail.com> <20080605.193227.233691471.sho@bbr.jp> <4847C5BA.7050304@gmail.com> <20080606.145117.189705417.sho@bbr.jp> In-Reply-To: <20080606.145117.189705417.sho@bbr.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] PDF CUPS filter packages List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Koji Otani Cc: toratani.yasumasa@canon.co.jp, printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org Koji Otani wrote: > We contacted with Mr. Michael Sweet. He said that he could not put pdf filters > into CUPS source tree because of Copyright and Maintenance, but he could > put them on somewhere in cups.org. I asked him to download PDF > filters and look them. I'm waiting for him to do them. Including Poppler code in CUPS is no problem with the license. Poppler is GPL. Probably the problem is that he wants to have copyright on the full source to be able to also include it in closed-source software and he probably also does not want to duplicate the Poppler source code (therefore he also changed the pdftops filter to call the pdftops tool from Poppler or xpdf instead), As your current PDF filters go deeply into the Poppler source code I think the best place for them is the Poppler project. Can you talk with Mike about including only the imagetopdf filter, as it does not use Poppler and goes deeply into the CUPS code. Tell Mike that you would transfer copyright to him and agree with him that the filter gets into CUPS under the same license as CUPS itself. Till