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Originally Posted by epiphany
So advocates of GPL want software to be liberated as long as you abide by their rules? Seems a bit of a contradiction. I want software to be truly liberated so that anyone can do whatever they like with it: sell it, give it away, copy it, modify it - no strings attached.
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Yes that is the paradox here, they had to use a copyright to overcome copyright limitations. Of course they call that "copyleft". But keep in mind the only thing they ask is to keep the "source" free so that others can build upon what exists.
Unfortunately this author chose not to share his work. If you go back on this thread you will see he was asked several times to share his source and he agreed to do so, but never did.
I think it's a real shame this was the best PDF to LRF software to date. Of course there is other software like soPDF and PDFCroper that show more promis than PDFLRF and they have provided the source.
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