Hey,
basically if you want to link iText (use it as a lib without modifying iText
itself):
a) AGPL - your project has to be open sourced as (A)GPL - or you have to buy
a commercial license
b) LGPL/MPL - if you link iText then your project can have its own
(commercial or open source) license
* Also note that you have to obey the other license conditions (provide
sourcecode, mentioning of the usage etc.)
* if you decide for b) then as already mentioned the old version is not
supported anymore...
Regards,
ToM
PS: I am not a lawyer.
2011/3/10 Bipin Mallik <[email protected]>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Could you please let me know about the "since version 5.0.0, iText codebase
> switched from MPL/LGPL to AGPL ". I don't have the detail knowledge about
> MPL/LGPL and AGPL.
>
> Thanks,
> Bipin
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Alexis Pigeon <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Bipin,
>>
>> On 10 March 2011 10:28, Bipin Mallik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> In our application we are using the iText "itext_1.5.4.jar" and now we
>>> would like to replace this old version of itext with the latest version of
>>> itext. So could you please suggest me which latest version of itext will be
>>> suitable to replace the old version of itext "itext_1.5.4.jar". Your help
>>> will be valuable to us.
>>>
>>
>> The latest version is 5.0.6, you can download it from the iText website :
>> < http://itextpdf.com/download.php >
>>
>> However, please note that 1.5.4 is IIRC a custom flavour of iText used by
>> Eclipse, and is something like 5 or 6 years old.
>> Therefore, you *should not* expect any direct compatibility between these
>> two versions, because of deprecated features, implementations of new ones,
>> and above all, massive refactoring (the most notable one being the renaming
>> of the root package from com.lowagie to com.itextpdf).
>> Such an upgrade will require adjustments in your code.
>>
>> Finally, let me remind you that since version 5.0.0, iText codebase
>> switched from MPL/LGPL to AGPL .
>>
>> Cheers,
>> alexs
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bipin
>>>
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