I am Hannes of the German chapter of the Free Software Foundation
Europe. I contacted Pam Greene on details regarding the PDF-Plugin in
Chrome/Chromium. Maybe you can help us with the matter discussed below.
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Best Regards, │ Free Software Foundation Europe █▉ │
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On Monday 01 November 2010 03:20:07 Pam Greene wrote:
> Dear Hannes,
>
> Thanks for your note. The PDF plugin is not my area of specialty, but
> Jeffrey Chang (jeffreyc@google.com) should be able to help you find
> the information you need.
>
> Best regards,
> - Pam
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Hannes Hauswedell
h2@fsfe.org
wrote:
> > Dear Pam,
> >
> > Max Senges gave us your contact details, regarding the PDF-Plugin
> > in Chrome / Chromium. As you might be aware, we have launched a
> > web-site and campaign regarding Free Software alternatives to
> > Adobce Acrobat:
http://pdfreaders.org
> >
> > As there has been little information following the original
> > announcement of embedded PDF support in Chrome, we were wondering
> > whether the plugin is licensed under the same terms as the rest of
> > the browser. Now it has recently been stated [1] that this is not
> > the case.
> >
> > Can you further comment on that? We were surprised to read that
> > with all of Google's commitment to Free Software in recent times
> > (including a Browser, two operating systems…), a PDF-Plugin is not
> > "under your control". (jam@chromium.org)
> >
> > We would really like to able to recommend a cross platform Free
> > Software web browser, that has integrated Free pdf support. In our
> > ongoing campaign to remove recommendations for Acrobat on
> > government and public sector web-sites and/or adding links to
> > pdfreaders.org, we are confident of increasing visibility of the
> > software recommended on our site. --
> >
> > ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
> >
> > Best Regards, │ Free Software Foundation Europe █▉
> > │ Hannes Hauswedell │ German Team
> > █▉█▉█▉ │
> >
> > │ Coordinator for pdfreaders.org ▉▉ │
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> >
> > [1]
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50852#c16