pdf-stapler

[Ian Malone]

On 14 January 2016 at 18:38, Raman Gupta <rocketraman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2016 01:27 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche <tedroche at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends
>>>> on iText, which has some licensing issues.
>>>>
>>>> Here is some of that discussion:
>>>>
>>>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65261/pdftk-not-in-f21/
>>>>
>>>> I also have client applications that depend on pdftk. My solution was
>>>> to switch them to Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that was the problem last time, there was also something
>>> about libgcj being needed. I know this keeps going round in circles,
>>> so apologies if I'm repeating old information, but I think this is
>>> what killed it when rpmfusion tried,
>>> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2009-January/003671.html
>>>
>>
>> Current itext license in case mcpdf is actually a possibility. Would
>> probably need someone from fedora legal to check it's acceptable as
>> they've used some modifications, which may be allowed by the APL, but
>> I know itext has a little history with making non-free modifications
>> to free licenses:
>> https://github.com/itext/itextpdf/blob/master/LICENSE.md
>>
>
> No, I believe the ambiguous additional language at the end of that
> page, requiring a commercial license in certain situations, is the
> actual problem. Here is the relevant post from Redhat legal:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html
>

Fairly comprehensive then. I didn't look back far enough...

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