FS#6656 - gnuplot: PDF support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Erwin Van de Velde (evdvelde) - Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 13:55 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 13:02 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Damir Perisa (damir.perisa)
Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

gnuplot on Arch is lacking PDF terminal support. This requires a pdflib package (www.pdflib.com) and the --with-pdf configure option. Since PDF support is not that uncommonly used, I am wondering why it is not already there.
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 13:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Sunday, 25 March 2007, 22:36 GMT
i just took over gnuplot from Eric, a former pkg-maintainer... sure it would be cool to have PDF-support. is the pdflib pkg free?
http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite/pdflib-lite-licensing/ is not plain GPL or something... so i'm wondering...
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 17 December 2007, 03:21 GMT
only non-commercial use of pdflib-lite is permitted (I haven't read the whole license, BTW). It's a similar issue like in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7001
We should be consistent on the addition of such licensed packages in the repo.
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Saturday, 06 December 2008, 10:21 GMT
gnuplot is currently being maintained by pressh. I have no problems with moving these "difficult" licensed software into the repositories, the users are responsible for checking the licenses.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 13:02 GMT
I won't add it as I don't think adding licenses like these is a good idea. People should be able to build their own with the use of the aur pdflib-lite package (which only has 4 votes so it doesn't seem to be very popular either).

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