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Android PDF Viewer Library without GPL license [closed]

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I'm looking for a PDF Viewer Library for Android without GPL License, does anybody have an idea if there's any available free-license library for that one?

Because I've been roaming around, and found some open source libraries such as MuPDF, Android PDF Viewer, DroidReader are using GPL License, which I cannot use for a commercial App I'm about to develop.

And no, I also don't want to use the google docs option ;-)

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hectichavana Avatar asked Jun 14 '12 10:06

hectichavana


2 Answers

MuPDF is GPL-ed, yes.

Using GPL-ed thirdparty components in your software doesn't prohibit its commercial usage (it just requires you release the source code of your software). So... your problem isn't the GPL per se, it's that you aren't willing to release your source code, right?

But... Artifex (the company behind MuPDF, Ghostscript, GhostXPS and GhostPCL) is willing to give you a license for MuPDF (as well as for its other products) for commercial use, which then doesn't require source code publishing of your stuff.

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Kurt Pfeifle Avatar answered Oct 20 '22 15:10

Kurt Pfeifle


http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/index.html this is a complete PDF toolkit (commercial)

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David Avatar answered Oct 20 '22 15:10

David