Jonathan G.Underwood wrote:
Is there any possibility of removing the clause above, or even just the
word licensed?
We both know that it doesn't work that way.
We are using some JAI classes under a license that was granted
by SUN in 2001. Meanwhile this license has changed, but for use
in iText,
Jonathan G.Underwood wrote:
OK - I wasn't aware of the history and thought/hoped that perhaps all of the
relevant copyright holders might still be active contributors to itext and
might
consider a license change (straws and clutching). Oh well.
AFAIK, it's now more difficult to use JAI
Bruno Lowagie bruno at lowagie.com writes:
The conversation was interesting, but now I'm confused:
is there any further action required by us?
I mean: the sun.txt has been removed from SVN.
It's no longer in iText 1.5.3. I see it's still in
iText 2.0.4, but it won't be in iText 2.0.5 (the
Jochen Schmitt wrote:
If you wrote 'This software is not designed for using for ...'
this may be ok. But if you wrote 'Thsi software is not licensed
for use ...' that is a usage restriction which we can't accept.
I agree with you, that an open source author may not take the
warrenty for
Bruno Lowagie wrote:
The conversation was interesting, but now I'm confused:
is there any further action required by us?
Not from me, I'm not affected by; just interested in the issue.
Darryl
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This SF.net email is
Paulo Soares wrote:
This looks like nit-picking but I'll let Bruno answer this one.
Paulo
I presume the non-nuclear restriction was a copy of the original Sun
licensing which has the non-nuclear facility caveat ? What was the
intended purpose at Sun of this ? What was the intended
This is a theme that goes back quite a few years. Sun essentially wanted to
say that Java should not be used for software on which lives might depend.
Other versions that are more detailed relating to other dangerous activities
and Java have also been used. Apple has used similar warnings in its
mister bean wrote:
This is a theme that goes back quite a few years. Sun essentially wanted to
say that Java should not be used for software on which lives might depend.
Other versions that are more detailed relating to other dangerous activities
and Java have also been used. Apple has used
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:57:28 +0100, you wrote:
So if your interpretation of the don't use technology in places where
lives might depend upon it is correct, maybe the clause can be
downgraded from being interpreted as a license restriction to being
guidance information that is not limited to
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Hello,
I'm a Fedora contributor, which has maintain the pdftk package,
which used the iText package.
Due licensing issue with an earlier version of your library we
have to remove your software from the Fedora project.
Now, as you have release a new
This looks like nit-picking but I'll let Bruno answer this one.
Paulo
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Paulo Soares wrote:
This looks like nit-picking but I'll let Bruno answer this one.
It's old news.
It will be nice, if you can take any effort to solve this issues.
It has been solved a while ago.
You're probably using a very old version of iText.
The Eclipse Foundation and IBM Canada have
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