License review for new itext version

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 23:38 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 11/11/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/11/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What are the other of the "several" issues with the license? Could the
> > > ex-package maintainer offer a bit more explanation?
> > >
> >
> > Aha, a bit of digging leads to:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236309
> >
> > which details the problems with itext licensing (on which pdftk
> > depends). I guess the nuclear use is a small issue compared to the
> > others :(.
> >
> 
> To continue the monologue, it seems itext upstream is now entirely
> licensed as either LGPL 2 or MPL. As such, I can't see a reason it
> can't be reinstated in Fedora.

If someone points me at a new package for itext, I'd be happy to do a
quick audit to confirm that it is OK for Fedora now.

~spot