(OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Brian K. White wrote:
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
>To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:55 AM
>Subject: Re: (OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?
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>> I'll have to take a look at that.  Hacking bad installation
>> setups is pretty normal.  The license looks a bit iffy.
>
>Before I put a set of binaries up on my public web site, and before I made 
>it a required heavily used part of all our installations, basically a 
>required part of our software, I emailed them and was told it's ok to 
>redistribute. The only unusual requirement is the source must always 
>actually be included right in any distrribution or package or media. And "On 
>the same web page" does not count as being part of the same distribution 
>media. So any tar or package must include the source as well as the bins.
>Other requirements are standard, such as you can't remove their names and 
>credits from the source.

All our source is built on the customer's systems from OpenPKG
packages (Source SRPMS) so that shouldn't be a problem.  Even
when we install from binaries on building new machines, part of
the installation installs the SPRMS as well as the binaries.

Bill
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