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Originally Posted by BACbKA
is there a port of the irex pdf viewer to linux (that is, w/o running it in a vnc session through the Antarctica's toolchain)? I just wanted something that would allow to view the PDF+IRX together w/o actually merging the scribbles into the PDF.
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The problem is that AFAIK iRex has not released the code for libscribble.so , so there is no way to do the port (no sources for the dependencies of ipdf). That's not compliant with the GPL of libpoppler (the pdf rendering library that iRex is using in ipdf), but they still have to publish a great bunch of the code affected by the GPL...
They have promised to do so, but it seems that they want to clean the sources before releasing them and the iRex developpers are only focused on the fix-the-firmware part, not in nvesting resources in the release-the-sources part..
Someone mentioned that FSFe contacted iRex to remind them of their obligations, but I don't know the status of that.
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Actually, we need two things to be able to form a community of developpers:
1. To be able to flash the iliad if we brick it (they are investigating it)
2. The rest of the sources affected by the gpl
Although for what yoy need. part (2) would be sufficient. Specifically, we would need the patch to the kernel sources so as to know the new functionality they have added to /dev/fbdev and the libscribble sources. Liberbusy and the rest would be nice to have, but not essential to make a port of ipdf to the PC (we could just comment the relevant source lines in ipdf).
So, waiting for iRex...
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