Markus Meyer wrote: > Moreover, there are some more points to consider. > > First, it seems that the license switch to AGPL (i.e. a "viral" license) > was made very silent.
The license change was announced on different occasions, at least 6 months before the actual change. > Second, I had tried to contact the iText developers in the past about > adding some functionality to iText and requested an offer. The iText developers (1T3XT BVBA, Belgium) develop. They don't sell licenses. You should contact iText Software Corp (US). > My experience > was really disappointing. Although I emailed with some persons several > times I never really got a quote. Companies asking a quote are contacted and asked about the context of their use of iText. Even people using free mail addresses such as hotmail, with nicknames such as "harakiri" received a reply, but no quote. > Infact, although I specifically > requested it, I never got an actual email of Bruno Lowagie I don't recall such a request; unless you're the one hiding behind the nickname harakiri. > Third, I don't know about the development process of iText, but did the > iText developers accept any patches from any third party? If yes, have > all third parties agreed to the license change? If not, on what grounds > can the license change be performed? Contributors are asked to sign a Contributor License Agreement. The license change was only possible after a thorough IP review: http://www.slideshare.net/blowagie/itext-ip-review Plenty of attorneys were involved ;-) best regards, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
