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

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 03:28:47 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks,

Could you be a little more specific? What part makes the license
non-free? What suggestions should we propose to the developers?

Orcan



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