pdfdistiller - CUPS PDF

[Goffioul Michael]

> Hallo Michael,
> 
> today I found by chance your pdfdistiller (CUPS backend) 
> which you have published in 2001 under the terms of the GNU 
> General Public License.
> 
> Initially I was looking for a CUPS-PDF printer solution which 
> creates PDF files from any Linux application, to be used with 
> the SLED10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10) and found a 
> modified version of your script without GNU GPL notice
> here:
> 
> http://www.linux-als-server.de/html/special-pdfprinter.php
> 
> I did my own customization on that script and have prepared a 
> rpm and documentation for Linux Newbies. 
> 
> I respect copyright and will add the GNU GPL notice and will 
> note that the my script is based on 
> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/printing/pdfdistiller - Copyright 
> by Michael Goffioul, 2001.
> 
> Would you agree with this approach?

Hi Axel,

As long as you respect the copyright, I'm fine with it. However, if
you think your customization might be useful for other users, you might
think about backporting to the original script and make it available
in standard KDE packages.

Regards,
Michael.