[XeTeX] "Minimalist" TeX?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:34:47PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2012/5/17 C Y <smustudent1 at yahoo.com>:
> > From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk>
> >
> >> Oh yes, license and library issues: I forgot :-)
> >
> > Does KerTeX have license issues?  (XeTeX being MIT instead of GPL was one of the things that drew me to it, actually...)
> 
> XeTeX is not MIT but GPL. It uses a GPL library (poppler), so...
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3304292&group_id=194926&atid=951385

That affects only the resulting binary, XeTeX code is still MIT licensed
(unless pdfimage.cpp is *copying* code from poppler), AFAIK.

Regards,
 Khaled