martijn.list wrote: > 1T3XT info wrote: > > [snip] >> BUT: as soon as you develop commercial activities with the new iText, >> you'll have to pay a fee to be released from the AGPL restrictions. > [snip] >> As soon as you expect to make money with your product, you'll need >> to pay a fee. That's fair isn't it? iText isn't "free beer" ;-) > > AFAIK that's not completely true. You can make money with an open source > project even if it's using an AGPLv3 licensed library without having to > pay a license fee to the owner of the AGPLv3 library. The only > obligation is that your complete project will be AGPLv3 licensed. You > cannot create a closed source project when you use AGPLv3 licensed code.
That was what I meant. Thanks for the clarification. But as soon as you want to remove the AGPL from iText, for instance in the context of dual licensing, you or the customer that wants to be released of the restrictions of the AGPL has to buy a license. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
