* Martin Schr?der <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-25 10:00:22]: > 2008/4/25 Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thank you very much for your opinion, but it is clear you come > > with an agenda. > > > > The OpenBSD project people do not follow the "bend to Adobe" agenda > > that some xpdf people follow. > > While it's always nice to blame Adobe, please first discuss those patches > upstream (i.e. with Derek and/or the poppler guys). And then consider > forking an OpenXPDF. At least make sure the original author never gets > bug reports from your Frankenstein-XPDF. > > Best > Martin >
Oh, puh-lease. It's common practice for a distibution of whatever, be it BSD, linux, etc., to add patches to 3rd party programs--not just to make them compile and work on a platform, but also to change functionality. This is no secret; upstream would be foolish to not consider the platform and patches their software is running on and with if they get a bug report. There is plenty of precedent for this sort of thing. Plus, xpdf is GPL 2, so we're not dealing with some sort of Iceweasel or Apache type malarkey. It's not an issue. -- Travers Buda
