Sorry for my naivety on this. What effect will that have on existing user's using older versions of iText code in there current commercial projects/products?
What effect will it have using the latest iText (v5 or whatever) in any future * products/projects? i.e. Will we need to pay for it? *Obviously NOT pretending to pass it off as our own code! I don't want to get into a situation where I recommend switching all our code to iText from ManyImage (IBM) to find out we are financially tied in without realising it. (I'm not really familiar with software licenses to be completely honest *shame*). Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Mark Storer [mailto:msto...@autonomy.com] Sent: 04 December 2009 17:57 To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Silent license change? I'd thought there was an announcement, but I get the dev list as well and might be getting my wires crossed. gmane to the rescue: There are a couple mentions of iText using AGPL going forward hither and yon, but nothing OVERT. Bruno will want to make some official announcment, but he's rather busy Actually Writing Code right now. Here's a completely **unofficial** announcement: The next major release of iText will undergo several Big Changes: 1) The version number will jump (to 5.0?), and both java and c# versions will henceforth share the same version. This is both a Sanity Thing and an effort to reflect other significant changes. 2) MPL/LGPL will be dropped in favor of AGPL. The last MPL/LGPL version of the source is iText 4.20, here: http://itext.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/itext/tags/iText_4_2_0/ (yes, iText 420... har har dude) Yes, the existance of iTextSoftware.com (and the effort to make some money on many years of hard work) influenced this decision. 3) All non-PDF code will be moved into separate projects. 4) All the "trunk" stuff is currently being moved (as we speak, see aforementioned "Actually Writing Code" comment) into a new package, "com.itextpdf.*". THIS WILL BREAK BINARY COMPATIBILITY WITH EXISTING CODE. Given the licensing change, this isn't such a bad thing. Previous users will need to make a Conscious Decision to switch versions, not just drop in a new JAR file. 5) iText will be built using java 1.5. Expect 1.5-isms (generics in particular) to creep their way into the source, though I'm not aware of any major effort to update en mass. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #include <disclaimer> typedef std::Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard; > -----Original Message----- > From: Vesa Jääskeläinen [mailto:ch...@nic.fi] > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:30 AM > To: iText questions > Subject: [iText-questions] Silent license change? > > > It seems that 1st of December 2009 iText license has been silently > changed from MPL+LGPL to AGPL. > > Does this mean that iTextSharp will also be switching to > AGPL? Currently > being in MPL+LGPL. > > Eg. 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