Hi Michael, I feel your pain, I am in similar situation. The commercial side of the licensing is geared for very big projects only, nothing small. I had no choice but to use 2.x and FOP will be next if I need more. Again I don't need free but I need something manageable.
-Dave On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Michael Schmodt <michael.schm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > 2010/4/22 Bruno Lowagie <br...@lowagie.com> >> >> Michael Olenick wrote: >> > If you're making money from iText -- with "making money" being defined >> > as somebody is paying you -- you should pay for it. There's a lot of >> > hard work that went into the creation and support of this awesome >> > tool. >> >> Thanks! >> best regards, >> Bruno >> > > That's very interessting: I am working both in research at an university and > within a small startup (spin off) from the university. The software projects > are closed source freeware and closed source commercial software with a > share of about 50% each. I requested information about obtaining a > commercial license and I was pretty astonished: The license fees were > magnitudes beyond the complete project budgets with very strict obligations. > I am really willing to obtain a license and to pay several 100 $ for it and > I find it absolutely ok for the developers to earn money with their > fantastic library. But: The current license fees are affordable for big > industries only. I already thought about stopping to use iText or to stick > with 2.1.7. After all,within my programms this is only a small component > for generating reports in order to show the results of computation > processes. I think, there are a lot of small projects and developers who are > in the same situation. If there is another way, I would appreciate this very > much, and as I said: I really like your lib and I am really willing to pay > for it. But I can't invest 150% of the whole budgets on the reporting > component only, and I am not willing to report the number of distribution > number several times a year. Have you ever thought about single developer > licenses with no fees for redistribution? > > Bye, > Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ 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/
