Okular is doing the right thing. NOT. [LWN.net]

Okular is doing the right thing. NOT.

Posted Jun 4, 2009 1:20 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (guest, #4486)
In reply to: Okular is doing the right thing. NOT. by sepreece
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

"it just disables the ability to take snips out of the document."

No, it doesn't. It just makes it more inconvenient. I can still open a text editor next to the PDF and re-type the snips.
As long as you can view the document, you can take snips out of it. If some PHB thinks otherwise, well, that's why he is a PHB.

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Okular is doing the right thing. NOT.

Posted Jun 4, 2009 14:28 UTC (Thu) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Agreed, and that's clear in other comments I have made in this strand - it disables the ability to take snips out of the document without overriding the restriction.

The point (from my perspective) is just to make sure the user knows he's breaking the author's rules.