[Fedora-legal-list] itext AGPL licensing (round 2)

[Richard Fontana]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:11:46PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Hi,
> There was a question last year about a license change in itext from
> LGPL to an AGPL variant [1].
> 
> At the time, no Fedora packages needed the new itext and the
> discussion ended without reaching a conclusion.
> 
> During this time period, apparently Debian also raised the same issue,
> and they took a step further to discuss this with the itext
> developers. Eventually, the itext developers made a change in their
> AGPL license. In particular, the phrase
> 
> ..."you must retain the producer line" has been changed into "a
> covered work must retain the producer line" in the latest iText
> release. [2]
> 
> This change satisfied the Debian maintainers and they packaged itext5.
> Now the question is the same: is this AGPL license [3] allowed in
> Fedora?

No. This does not correct the problem. 

- RF


> 
> [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2010-August/001352.html
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27574906
> [3] http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/agpl.php
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Richard E. Fontana
Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel
Red Hat, Inc.