On 22/09/2010 19:46, Ricardo Andre Redder Junior wrote: > would it be OK for the community to continue the > development of this version? I mean, would there be any legal issue > continuing the development of this version, keeping the same license? > For instance, submitting patches, adding features, etc., independently > of version 5.
You are talking about creating a fork. The reason why iText moved from MPL/LGPL was because the company supporting the project, writing documentation, stimulating development could no longer afford the effort: there had to be revenue or the project would die. What you want to do, is to revive the dead. That's not very wise, and tricky legally (because you don't own the IP). Also: the price of a license is ridiculously low (as opposed to what some people/competitors have insinuated), so it's probably cheaper to buy a license than to put manpower into a fork (and all the misery that comes with it). Read: http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5045 It's not about the price, it's about the quality. Who is going to write a book about the fork? Who is going to take responsibility when something goes wrong? No, no, no, this is about much more than just "would it be legal?" It would be stupid to create a fork, very, very stupid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
