I saw this email some time ago (converted to bottom-posting to provide better context):
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Paulo Soares <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Anders Thomsen [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:41 PM >> I'm a bit confused about with license change to AGPL. [..] >> Is a commercial company allowed to, while keeping its own >> software closed: [..] >> 2) Use the IText library on a company website that can be >> reached from outside. It will be used to generate reports >> etc. that users can download on demand. > You'll have to provide your website source code to your clients unless you > buy a > commercial license. I am not sure that this statement is accurate. Of course it may vary from country to country, and I'm not an attorney (anywhere), but the relevant section of the AGPL version 3 appears to me to be section 13, which says in part: "...if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version..." That suggests to me that the obligation to provide the source code is only activated if the iText library is modified -- if the iText library is used without any changes, then it is not a "modified version" and so the text in section 13 does not apply. It's also not clear to me whether this obligation would extend to the entire web application that happens to use iText, or just to the iText library per se. If I'm wrong about what the AGPL means, I hope someone will clarify exactly what I'm missing. Cheers, Brett -- Brett Neumeier ([email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] 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/
