On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > >> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, > >> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as > >> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing gcj > >> would therefore be a real loss. > > As long as you're fine with any command-line pdf processing tool, > > you could use app-text/cpdf which I've used for a long time and > > just added to the tree. > > Note that it's licensed under a non-commercial type license > > though.
> Why would we want to replace a working GPL-2 application for an > application under a non-free license? As one of the users of > app-text/pdftk I'm not a big supporter of this (although I have not > looked into mcpdf as was brought up earlier in this thread, although > that as well seems to be under a more restrictive AGPL-3 license). I'm not saying it's a replacement, it's an alternative. Also, some of us are less picky about licensing issues as long as the source code is available and free for personal use. :) Tim
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