Hi Jukka, sounds very good to me, espacially the point about the upcoming release. I guess it is an important milestone for the people using pdfbox to get a new precompiled version after more than 2 years. I hope too, that it will be out before ApacheCon. Apropos, I saw that you will be in Amsterdam, I will be there, too. So it's a good oppertunity to meet each other. Will someone else from here be there?
BR Andreas P.S.: There is one little typo on the incubator- page of pdfbox. In the news-section is one "r" missing at the end of my lastname. > We're still a few weeks from our next Incubator status report, but I > wanted to write up a bit broader overview of what's been going on > recently, so here's blog post I just wrote about PDFBox status: > > http://jukkaz.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/apache-pdfbox-status-update/ > > Full text copied below. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > Apache PDFBox status update > > The PDFBox project is a well known and widely used Java library for > reading and writing documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF). > Here's my perspective on the recent developments of the project. > > Project activity > > The project was quite dormant when it entered the Apache Incubator > about a year ago after we had discussed the idea first at the > ApacheCon US 2007 and then on the Incubator mailing list. For a while > it looked like project would remain quiet, but in the past few months > we've seen a clear increase in project activity. Thanks for that goes > especially to the contributions of the two new committers, Andreas > Lehmkühler and Brian Carrier. > > License review > > My main focus in Apache PDFBox has recently been the thorough license > review that I've been conducting over the past months. Before entering > the Incubator, the PDFBox library was liberally licensed under a BSD > License. However, the copyright or licensing status of many external > components included in PDFBox was neither well documented nor well > understood by downstream projects. For example, PDFBox used to contain > parts of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) library that is only > available under the Sun Binary Code License, a license that is not > compatible with Apache policies. > > The license review has taken me through a number of legal issues, put > me in contact with the Adobe legal team, and made me solve some > followup issues. And we also took care of proper export control > notifications needed for the PDF encryption support in PDFBox. Luckily > the end is finally in sight, and I'm optimistic about having all the > remaining open issues closed within a month or so. Altogether it's > been a very interesting and educational process. > > Next release > > With the license review nearing completion and lots of unreleased > fixes and improvements accumulating in the project trunk, it is time > to start preparing for the first incubating PDFBox release. This > release will be called Apache PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating, and will be a > major improvement over the 0.7.3 release from over two years ago. All > downstream projects should seriously consider upgrading as soon as the > release becomes available. It would be really great if the release was > out by the ApacheCon Europe at the end of March. > > Summary > > As a mentor and champion of the project I am really happy with the > current status. It seems reasonable to expect PDFBox to graduate from > the Incubator sometime later this year. > -- Auf der Verpackung stand "benötigt Windows 9x/2000/XP oder BESSER", also habe ich Linux installiert.
