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diff --git a/Build/source/libs/poppler/poppler-src/README b/Build/source/libs/poppler/poppler-src/README deleted file mode 100644 index dc3c19ec31b..00000000000 --- a/Build/source/libs/poppler/poppler-src/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -This is poppler, a PDF rendering library. - -Poppler is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg -of Glyph and Cog, LLC. The purpose of forking xpdf is twofold. -First, we want to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared -library, to centralize the maintenance effort. Today a number of -applications incorporate the xpdf code base, and whenever a security -issue is discovered, all these applications exchange patches and put -out new releases. In turn, all distributions must package and release -new version of these xpdf based viewers. It's safe to say that -there's a lot of duplicated effort with the current situation. Even if -poppler in the short term introduces yet another xpdf derived code -base to the world, we hope that over time these applications will -adopt poppler. After all, we only need one application to use poppler -to break even. - -Second, we would like to move libpoppler forward in a number of areas -that don't fit within the goals of xpdf. By design, xpdf depends on -very few libraries and runs a wide range of X based platforms. This -is a strong feature and reasonable design goal. However, with poppler -we would like to replace parts of xpdf that are now available as -standard components of modern Unix desktop environments. One such -example is fontconfig, which solves the problem of matching and -locating fonts on the system, in a standardized and well understood -way. Another example is cairo, which provides high quality 2D -rendering. See the file TODO for a list of planned changes. - -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. If you want to incorporate Xpdf based PDF -rendering in a closed source product, please contact Glyph & Cog -(www.glyphandcog.com) for commercial licensing options. Note that -this only allows you to use xpdf in a closed source product, -not poppler itself. - - Kristian Høgsberg, Feb. 27, 2005 - - -See the README-XPDF for the original xpdf-3.03 README. |