Bruno Lowagie schrieb: > > I see you are using the wxWindows Library License. > I think that library is compatible with the LGPL and MPL > (but I'm not a lawyer).
Neither am I, but I also think that the wxWindows Library License is compatible with LGPL and MPL. > I would very much welcome a C++ port of iText. Me too. :-) In fact I thought about writing a C++ port of iText while inspecting iText during the last weeks. But I haven't come to a conclusion yet. There are other efforts in writing C++ libraries for generating/manipulating PDF like libharu or PoDoFo. But they aren't comparable to iText in respect to richness of features and level of abstraction. > As a matter of fact, some people on the mailing list > have asked me privately if there are plans in that direction. > My answer is: I'd like a C++ port, but I don't have the time > to write and maintain such a port. I understand that very well. That would be my biggest concern, too, if I started to write a C++ port, since I do such programming in my spare time. > Your question is different. You'd like to port parts > of iText to C++ for use in your software. Yes, for the time being I decided to continue to work on my own PDF library, since I think porting the complete iText library to C++ might be a too big task for me alone to get it done in a reasonable time frame. > Note that we > have done something similar on different occasions. > For instance: the inspiration for the hyphenation code > comes from Apache FOP. In the past, we did the same with > part of the BouncyCastle code. You find all this information > here: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/acknowledgments/ > For instance: > http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/acknowledgments/people.php?id=73 I see. Certainly I add references and acknowledgments to iText if I let iText inspire me in the further development of wxPdfDocument. > So if you are saying: I want to use iText as inspiration > for implementing digital signatures, my answer is: sure; > as long as you add iText in the acknowledgements and respect > the license. Again, I'm not a lawyer, but the wxWindows > Library License looks OK to me. Great. > I hope this answers your question. Yes. Thank you very much! Regards, Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
