Bug 537437 (itextsharp) - Review Request: itextsharp - Mono library for generating PDF files
Summary: Review Request: itextsharp - Mono library for generating PDF files
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: itextsharp
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: mono-bouncycastle
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-13 16:15 UTC by Kalev Lember
Modified: 2010-07-02 20:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-07-02 20:22:39 UTC
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Description Kalev Lember 2009-11-13 16:15:37 UTC
Spec URL: http://kalev.fedorapeople.org/itextsharp.spec
SRPM URL: http://kalev.fedorapeople.org/itextsharp-4.1.6-1.fc12.src.rpm
Description:
iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library for PDF
generation, written entirely in C# for the .NET platform.

Comment 1 Kalev Lember 2009-12-10 21:50:21 UTC
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

Comment 2 Kalev Lember 2010-07-02 20:22:39 UTC
The licensing problems should be solved now, but I'm no longer interested in this package.

Closing the ticket.


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