On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:11:46PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Hi, > There was a question last year about a license change in itext from > LGPL to an AGPL variant [1]. > > At the time, no Fedora packages needed the new itext and the > discussion ended without reaching a conclusion. > > During this time period, apparently Debian also raised the same issue, > and they took a step further to discuss this with the itext > developers. Eventually, the itext developers made a change in their > AGPL license. In particular, the phrase > > ..."you must retain the producer line" has been changed into "a > covered work must retain the producer line" in the latest iText > release. [2] > > This change satisfied the Debian maintainers and they packaged itext5. > Now the question is the same: is this AGPL license [3] allowed in > Fedora? No. This does not correct the problem. - RF > > [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2010-August/001352.html > [2] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27574906 > [3] http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/agpl.php > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list > legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal -- Richard E. Fontana Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
