On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche <tedroche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends >> on iText, which has some licensing issues. >> >> Here is some of that discussion: >> >> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65261/pdftk-not-in-f21/ >> >> I also have client applications that depend on pdftk. My solution was >> to switch them to Ubuntu. >> > > I'm not sure that was the problem last time, there was also something > about libgcj being needed. I know this keeps going round in circles, > so apologies if I'm repeating old information, but I think this is > what killed it when rpmfusion tried, > http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2009-January/003671.html > Current itext license in case mcpdf is actually a possibility. Would probably need someone from fedora legal to check it's acceptable as they've used some modifications, which may be allowed by the APL, but I know itext has a little history with making non-free modifications to free licenses: https://github.com/itext/itextpdf/blob/master/LICENSE.md -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
