pdftk

[Jon Ingason]

Den 2014-12-11 05:08, Paul Allen Newell skrev:
> 
> On 12/10/2014 08:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell
>> <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller
>>>> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>>>>>>> It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be
>>>>>>>> missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it
>>>>>>>> is a bit useless to make the comment here. But hopefully senior
>>>>>>>> folk
>>>>>>>> in Fedora can give a push for pdftk to be "somewhere" within the
>>>>>>>> Linux world that Fedora users can pick up (and also Centos).
>>>>>>> We'd love to have it in Fedora. The itext5 author is really the
>>>>>>> person
>>>>>>> to talk to here.
>>>>>> Who would that be? Can this go to RPMfusion?
>>>>> That's up to the RPMfusion people. But really, that's a lot less
>>>>> ideal than having the software licensed in a truly open way so
>>>>> everyone
>>>>> can benefit.
>>>> Completely agree with this sentiment! But we can not do much here, I
>>>> guess, except hope!
>>>>
>>>> Ranjan
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Okay, I will hope (and in a positive manner as opposed to sarcastic) ...
>>> but part of that will be in the spirit of my original use of the word
>>> "hopeful" that someone with a "voice that matters" can give a push to
>>> either itext5 author or rpmfusion group that it would be a good thing.
>>>
>>> Thanks for giving this thread a "let's hope" flavor rather than a "ain't
>>> gonna happen so forget it" brick wall
>> Well, yes it is a fond hope because as I said, it is a fond hope. But
>> I can't make it happen because I do not know the issues that this
>> entails.
>>
>> Ranjan
>>
> 
> I probably know less of the issues involved and understand that I am
> walking a fine line to avoid sounding like a Pollyanna
> 
>>> Paul

Well, if you look at ITEXT website the software license is AGPL for
itext5, (see http://itextpdf.com/agpl), which is "Software Licenses that
are OK for Fedora", (see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing).

So it should be OK to use in Fedora or am I missing something?
--
Regards

Jon Ingason