[Fedora-legal-list] itext AGPL licensing

[Richard Fontana]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:01:37AM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 02:13 -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> >   In accordance with Section 7(b) of the GNU Affero General Public
> >   License, you must retain the producer line in every PDF that is
> >   created or manipulated using iText.
> > 
> > This is an additional restriction that is not authorized by section 7
> > of AGPLv3. 
> 
> That isn't obvious to me.  Does 7(b) allow a requirement that a legal
> notice be preserved in a specific field of a file format?

No. This clause was largely meant to codify GPL-compatibility of
existing notice preservation requirements in GPLv2-compatible
licenses, which apply only to code itself (or maybe materials
accompanying distributed code). 

- RF