Marc Laporte <m...@marclaporte.com> writes: >Hi everyone! > >The license has changed to vanilla LGPL: > >http://tcpdf.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tcpdf/tcpdf;a=blobdiff;f=LICENSE.TXT;h=daf21f7d3eb8748eed5ff70c23ed24729175bce5;hp=26adda0b39f000d80f0dbeff438a91caeafba77f;hb=HEAD;hpb=a39c64ba22843519eb0b6bd114b22a3dd2ef4847 > >Thanks!
Very glad to hear it, and congratulations! :-) Best, -Karl >On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com> wrote: >> Marc Laporte <m...@marclaporte.com> writes: >>>Hi Karl and all! >>> >>>I hope you are well and I am looking for advice, again :-) >>> >>>We are discussing which PDF library to include in Tiki Wiki CMS >>>Groupware (http://tiki.org) >>> >>>TCPDF is an option but there is a special clause >>> >>>It is LGPL v3 + "Additionally, YOU CAN'T REMOVE ANY TCPDF COPYRIGHT >>>NOTICE OR LINK FROM THE GENERATED PDF DOCUMENTS." >>>http://www.tcpdf.org/license.php >>> >>>What do you think? >> >> I'd stay away from that. If your publishing software places >> requirements on the *content* of the material you're publishing, >> something is wrong. In my opinion, as long as they have this clause, >> TCPDF is not free software, despite their claim that it is. >> >> The clause is also unclear: who exactly is the "YOU"? The first >> downstream licensee? What about the second - Nth downstream licensees? >> And can a redistributor of TCPDF remove that clause from the license on >> their redistributions? (Possibly; after all, the clause doesn't say >> anything about itself, and it's part of a license notice, not of the >> license itself.) >> >> The whole thing is legally ill-crafted as well as unfree, IMHO. Stay a >> million miles away. Or, see if you can persuade them that this kind of >> enforced advertising in output is not the way to go. >> >> -Karl >> >>>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>From: Xen >>>Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:57 PM >>>Subject: Re: [Tiki-devel] Slideshow gains pdf export ; ). Wiki next! + >>>PDF Document Data Merger >>>To: Tiki developers >>> >>> >>>On 11/23/2011 09:48 AM, Robert Plummer wrote: >>>> Also, my first choice was TCPDF, but it is HUGE! 11.5 meg. I couldn't >>>> justify making tiki that much larger for simple pdf export. >>> >>>I would also eliminate use of TCPDF for my current needs due to this >>>statement in their license: >>> YOU CAN'T REMOVE ANY TCPDF COPYRIGHT NOTICE OR LINK FROM THE >>> GENERATED PDF DOCUMENTS. >>>http://www.tcpdf.org/license.php >>> >>>On the TCPDF examples, I see a large red logo on the top of every pdf.... >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>TikiWiki-devel mailing list >>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> License-discuss mailing list >> License-discuss@opensource.org >> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
