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Flameeyes · 02-02-2008, 08:44 AM

Hi,

I've been told to look at your software to better convert some PDF files I have into lrf. Unfortunately it does crash here on my box (segmentation fault), and as the executable is stripped of debug information, I can't really debug it (I'm a developer myself, so I do know my way around these things).

I can't seem to be able to find the source of your program, but you says yourself you're using poppler for reading the PDF file; poppler is released under GNU General Public License version 2, which means that if you write an application using it, you need to release that under GNU General Public License version 2 license too, which requires providing the sources as well as binaries.

Please, as you were able to use Free Software to implement your program, don't ignore the license, and provide the same freedom to your users. Beside, I'm sure that if you do release your sources, you'll soon have more contributors, patches and fixes. I offer myself to help as soon as you do release the sources, I'll analyse the code, provide patches where necessary, and work toward including your software in at least one Linux distribution (Gentoo Linux, which I'm a developer of).

02-02-2008, 08:44 AM	#334
Flameeyes Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: PRS-505	Source code? Hi, I've been told to look at your software to better convert some PDF files I have into lrf. Unfortunately it does crash here on my box (segmentation fault), and as the executable is stripped of debug information, I can't really debug it (I'm a developer myself, so I do know my way around these things). I can't seem to be able to find the source of your program, but you says yourself you're using poppler for reading the PDF file; poppler is released under GNU General Public License version 2, which means that if you write an application using it, you need to release that under GNU General Public License version 2 license too, which requires providing the sources as well as binaries. Please, as you were able to use Free Software to implement your program, don't ignore the license, and provide the same freedom to your users. Beside, I'm sure that if you do release your sources, you'll soon have more contributors, patches and fixes. I offer myself to help as soon as you do release the sources, I'll analyse the code, provide patches where necessary, and work toward including your software in at least one Linux distribution (Gentoo Linux, which I'm a developer of).