note 87967 added to pdf.requirements

From: Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:41:02 +0000
Subject: note 87967 added to pdf.requirements
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This text is misleading. "PDFlib Lite is available as open source. However, the PDFlib Lite license allows free use only under certain conditions." Open Source is a trademark of The Open Source Initiative. It is to be used only to refer to software distributed under an OSI Approved License. Although the license for PDFlib Lite ( http://tinyurl.com/28yhxc ) allows it to be used with Open Source software, it is not itself distributed under an Open Source license, and it's terms of distribution do not fit the Open Source Definition ( http://opensource.org/docs/osd ) It is also notable that the PDFlib Lite license is specifically incompatible with many Free Software licenses such as the GPL ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 216.110.94.227 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/pdf.requirements.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87967 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87967 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87967 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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