Bug 245222

Summary:	This package uses itext which has licensing problems
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Anthony Green <green>
Component:	pdftk	Assignee:	Jochen Schmitt <jochen>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Anthony Green 2007-06-21 18:57:56 UTC

Description of problem:
This package (like RSSOwl) uses itext.  We recently discovered licensing
problems in itext.  I don't know what to do about it yet.  Ideas?

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Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2007-06-21 19:22:22 UTC

I already filed bug 236310 against pdftk. (In fact, pdftk was where I first 
found the offending code.)

Comment 2 Jochen Schmitt 2007-06-24 18:04:10 UTC

Package pdftk will going into the EOL process because iText contains licensing
issue and pdftk contains a modified copy of iText.