Op di 29-07-2003, om 20:51 schreef Daniel Mayer:
The GPL is irrelevant here since Adobe holds the PDF patents.
But GPL has clauses concerning patents. It demands a royalty-free license for all. Even more, GNU Ghostscript is an official GNU-package, and is downloadable from gnu.org. The FSF refuses to use gif-images on their pages because of patents. So I cannot imagine they would apply different standards concerning pdf.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/intro.html Ghostscript has several main uses: 1. Display a PostScript or PDF file (avoid killing trees). 2. Convert a PostScript file to a PDF (or vice versa)
However, PDF is not an open standard because it is controlled by a single vendor, and not some standards body. But unlike Word/doc, it is fully documented.
Wouter