Licensing issue - shouldn't this be GPL?

ropensci / pdftools

Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

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Licensing issue - shouldn't this be GPL? #87

Closed pedrommalaquias closed 3 years ago

pedrommalaquias commented 3 years ago

If this tool is based / requires Poppler, shouldn't it be released under the same license (GPL2, GPL3)?

https://github.com/freedesktop/poppler "Note that Poppler is licensed under the GPL, not the LGPL, so programs which call Poppler must be licensed under the GPL as well. See the section History and GPL licensing for more information."

jeroen commented 3 years ago

All the source code in pdftools is authored by myself, the package does not include any source files written by other people. I release all of my own code as MIT (which is compatible with GPL, if you want).