itext 5.x

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Jerry James  wrote:
> Does anybody know if there are licensing issues with itext 5.x?  I'd like to
> package some software that needs a fairly recent version of itext, but I
> know we've had license issues with that package in the past.
>
> Also, FWIW, bouncycastle hasn't been updated because of itext
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806262), but the most recent
> version of itext, at least, requires the newest bouncycastle.

Yeah, we can't have itext-5 in Fedora. Please see [1] and the
references therein. We could not update bouncycastle either, lately,
due to its incompatibility with itext-2. I have some patches that give
partial success with building itext-2 against the latest bouncycastle
API, but the build fails during the AOT bits compilation step. I am
not a java programmer and I eventually gave up working on it.

Meanwhile, I dropped the maintainership for both bouncycastle and
itext-2 a couple months ago. To my knowledge, these packages are still
up for grabs.

Best,
Orcan


[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001653.html