On 03/06/2014 06:41 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that >> uses a Java library (iText) through CNI. I once tried to rewrite >> the C++ part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite >> involved, so I didn't quite get there. >> >> Switch to pdftk version 2 doesn't change the basic architecture of >> the program. >> >> (We really want to get rid of GCJ.) > > An additional reason is the fact, that pdftk2 may depend on iText5 or later. > For licensing reasons Fedora only provides iText-2.1.7 at the last release > of iText wihout any known licensing issues. > > That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora > anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone > who maintaining any package with dependencies on this package. This is why pdftk died. We can't include iText5+ because of its licensing issues. ~tom == ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º> OSAS @ Red Hat University Outreach || Fedora Special Projects || Fedora Legal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
