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From: Adam Reichold <adamreichold@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:39:29 +0200
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Hello,

Benjamin just received a message from Pino Toscano that even though
poppler 0.20 and later is based on xpdf 3.03 which is licensed under
GPL v2 and v3, poppler itself still has to be considered as GPL v2
only which is incompatible with GPL v3.

Hence I more or less have to change the license of qpdfview to GPL v2
or later.

For the source code itself, this is no problem. The translations done
via Launchpad are also unproblematic as they are automatically BSD
licensed.

But I would ask all direct contributors of translations and
documentation to give me their permission to distribute the program
under the GPL v2 including their contributions. (Or at least tell me
their opinion on this so I can remove those contributions.)

AFAIK, this would include: Benjamin Eltzner, Fabian Pijcke and Leo
Romanovski.

Thanks for your help to resolve this quickly.

Best regards, Adam.

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