Latest upstream release: 2.02 Current version/release in Fedora Rawhide: 1.44-11.fc19 URL: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
pdf-2.0.x requires iText-5.x which is not supported on Fedora due a licensing issue. so there is not support for the pdftk-2.x series. In general I think pdftk will not support in the future due the absence of the gcj suport in futere Fedora releases.
(In reply to Jochen Schmitt from comment #1) > pdf-2.0.x requires iText-5.x which is not supported on Fedora due a > licensing issue. .. What's wrong with GNU Library General Public License? The pdftk source contains file (pdftk-2.02-dist/java/pdftk/com/itext_replace_mpl_text_with_lgpl.sh) with following statement: “ # The pdftk code is distributed with a GPL, and it links with the iText library. # What is more, I have read many places that the GPL is incompatible with the # MPL. So I have replaced the above MPL/LGPL boilerplate with LGPL boilerplate # in all iText java files as described in this original MPL/LGPL boilerplate. ” pdftk is using very old iText library not the latest one. iTex library has been included in the pdftk 2.02 source distribution.
Jochen, could you please comment on whether the license issues are still there, in the light of comment #2?
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