Ubuntu Touch: Poppler or MuPDF as PDF renderer

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Wed May 29 21:26:26 UTC 2013


On 05/21/2013 12:32 AM, Alexander Antimonov wrote:
> As both Poppler and MuPDF are strong copylefted, question is if
> either of two may be turned into "standard API" for pdf rendering?
> Because doing so would require third-party apps be GPL compatible.

Seems that someone needs to start writing a new PDF renderer from
scratch then. All Open Source PDF renderers seem to be strict GPL.

   Till





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