On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > 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. > Thanks, Could you be a little more specific? What part makes the license non-free? What suggestions should we propose to the developers? Orcan _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
