[Contrib: Evaluation System] Evaluations licence and itexfpdflicence - problem.

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Looks like the license for the version of itext we are using was
actually LGPL and not AGPL. It is only AGPL for the newer versions.
Since LGPL is non-viral unless you change it, it means the overall
project stays as ECL.

"As of version 5.0.0 (released Dec 7, 2009) it is distributed under
the Affero General Public License version 3. Previous versions of
iText (Java up to 2.1.7 and C# up to 4.1.6) were distributed under the
Mozilla Public License or the LGPL."

So we could probably upgrade to version 4 but then the future upgrades
are out of the question unless we want to convert things to AGPL
(which maybe we are OK with).


If anyone is considering swapping out to a different library:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6118635/what-is-the-best-pdf-open-source-library-for-java
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1377135/are-there-any-java-pdf-creation-alternatives-to-itext
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3986105/pdf-generation-library-for-java

-AZ


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Daniel Merino
<daniel.merino at unavarra.es> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> Related to this topic, I'm currently making some local improvements to
> pdf reports (I did others in the past::
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1100 ) and I think that
> this library is quite obsolete. Evalsys uses itextpdf 2.0.7 and
> currently latest stable version is 5.4.0. The old com.lowagie.*
> libraries are not supported nowadays.
>
> Several trivial issues in newer versions of itextpdf are really hard to
> do with 2.0.7 and there is nobody to help out there. :-(
>
> If somebody is going to take a look on this topic, maybe it could be a
> good time to update.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Adam Marshall escribió:
>> Evaluations uses the itextpdf library for generating PDF files. itextpdf has the agpl licence: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
>>
>> Evaluation has an ECL 2.0 licence.
>>
>> My reading is that AGPL isn't compatible with ECL 2, has a special deal been struck with the itextpdf gang?
>>
>> adam
>>
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