[Bug 537437] Review Request: itextsharp - Mono library for generating PDF files

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537437


Bug 537437 depends on bug 537431, which changed state.

Bug 537431 Summary: Review Request: mono-bouncycastle - Bouncy Castle Crypto Package for Mono
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537431

           What    |Old Value                   |New Value
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
         Resolution|                            |ERRATA
             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED



--- Comment #1 from Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee>  2009-12-10 16:50:21 EDT ---
There is a possible licensing problem. During mono-bouncycastle review it was
discovered that mono-bouncycastle contains ASL 1.1 licensed code, which is
incompatible with GPL. itextsharp contains code that is dual licensed under
(LGPLv2+ or MPLv1.1). The problem is with LGPLv2+, which is not compatible with
ASL 1.1. It might be possible that MPLv1.1 is compatible with ASL 1.1, but I
couldn't find any references about that.

I wrote to bouncycastle csharp crypto mailing list [1] and filed a ticket with
their bugtracking system [2], asking if they could relicense the ASL 1.1 code
under ASL 2.0. It should certainly be possible to solve this issue, as the ASL
1.1 code in bouncycastle originates from the Apache ANT project, which has been
subsequently relicened to ASL 2.0.

[1] http://www.bouncycastle.org/csharpdevmailarchive/msg00370.html
[2] http://www.bouncycastle.org/jira/browse/BJA-238

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