License review for new itext version
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 12 21:12:47 UTC 2007
Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the past we have removed itext and pdftk which depends on itext from
> the Fedora distribution due
> license issue.
>
> In the new iText package itext-2.0.4 I have found a text file about the
> licensing situation of the
> source file coming from Sun Corporation Inc.
>
> I have uploaded this file for review on
>
> http://www.herr-schmitt.de/pub/itext/sun.txt
>
> I want to know, it this ok for Fedora. But I assume, that the last term
> about usage this
> file for nuclear weapons may be a blocker.
This looks like the revised BSD license with a use restriction that
makes it non-free.
Rahul
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