/usr/ports/pdflib Version

[Lowell Gilbert]

Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:

> I note that from
> http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/download/index
> 
> there is a free version of:
> 
> PDFlib-6.0.2-FreeBSD5.tar.gz
> 
> Does anyone know if this a later version of /usr/ports/pdflib4 or is it an 
> entirely different product?
> 
> In any case does anyone have any comments about this one and is there any 
> reason not to put a copy in the ports tree?

It has a license that is pretty complicated to comply with, so the
ports system won't include the distfile.  Note that there is already a
/usr/ports/print/pdflib which will get you a "lite" version of 6.0.2.