License review for new itext version

Jochen Schmitt Jochen at herr-schmitt.de
Tue Aug 14 15:21:58 UTC 2007


On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:55:53 +0200, you wrote:

>Ah yes, that sounds much better then the "So iTex will still be dead for 
>Fedora" sentence from your other mail. Usually when a license is so close, and 
>upstream is not dead, the chances are quite good upstream will be willing to 
>change the license. Notice that some (severe) stubbornness from yuor side may 
>be needed to get to the point where the license actually gets changed.

When I wrote 'IText sill dead for Fedora' this described the
current state, but any upstream should has the chance to change
the situation by clarification the licensing conditions.

The main issue, I see, is the fact, that the source code which
cause the licensing issue are comming from Sun Inc.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt




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