Joerg Schilling schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote:
From jeroen@dekkers.cx Sat Mar 16 14:27:21 2002 What's non-free about the PDF?
You are trying to participate a discussion about freedom and don't know what's not free with PDF?
Well, the PDF format specification is available at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf and there are free tools which can read and write PDF. So what's the problem with that format? It appears to me that PDF is as acceptable as the Java language, and given that "the GNU project fully supports the Java language" (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/java.html), I doubt there are any problems with that one.
I can't see what's non-free about PDF. Could someone tell me please?
Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang