On 01/14/2016 01:27 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > 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 > No, I believe the ambiguous additional language at the end of that page, requiring a commercial license in certain situations, is the actual problem. Here is the relevant post from Redhat legal: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html And since mcpdf uses itext, it will have the same issue. In any case, mcpdf is, at least currently, woefully short of being a pdftk replacement. And it doesn't seem the author or anyone else is working to improve that situation -- the last commit that added functionality is two years ago (https://github.com/m-click/mcpdf). There is an mcpdf copr though (I haven't used it): https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/thomasfedb/mcpdf/ Pdf-stapler at least provides the select/cat capability of pdftk, which mcpdf does not. Regards, Raman -- 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
