On 14 January 2016 at 18:38, Raman Gupta <rocketraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Fairly comprehensive then. I didn't look back far enough... -- 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
