PDF format (was: Re: BitKeeper licence critic)

Florian Weimer Weimer at CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Sun Mar 17 08:54:25 UTC 2002


Wolfgang Jährling <wolfgang at pro-linux.de> writes:

> I can't see what's non-free about PDF. Could someone tell me please?

Adobe tries to prevent people from writing pseudo-PDF implementations
which do not conform to the spec.  IIRC, they claim to have
copyrighted the keyword list and license it to you only if you
implement The Real Thing.

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