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.
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[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50852#c16