Re: [pdf-devel] About Gnu-PDFlib and Poppler

[Terje Bråten]

>> Would it speed up development of PDFlib if this project just copied some
>> code from poppler? Has anyone thought about that?
> 
> poppler is actually the library version of Xpdf rendering code +
> improvements. So the API is fixed and comes from old code
> 
> gnu pdf is written from scratch, with maybe better API
> 
> note that there is another pdf library : mupdf, which is used by
> ghostscript. Also written from scratch.
> 

I just find it strange that when there is at least 3 free software pdf
libraries out there, all the work has to be done over again each time.

> PDFLib: C, GPL3
> poppler: C++, GPL2
>
> How much code do you think they (can) technically and legally share?
>
> Best
>    Martin

Yes, I guess different language and different license are two main
problems. What about mupdf then? Well, I guess I can have look at that
myself later.

Terje B.