On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:11:46PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Hi,
> There was a question last year about a license change in itext from
> LGPL to an AGPL variant [1].
>
> At the time, no Fedora packages needed the new itext and the
> discussion ended without reaching a conclusion.
>
> During this time period, apparently Debian also raised the same issue,
> and they took a step further to discuss this with the itext
> developers. Eventually, the itext developers made a change in their
> AGPL license. In particular, the phrase
>
> ..."you must retain the producer line" has been changed into "a
> covered work must retain the producer line" in the latest iText
> release. [2]
>
> This change satisfied the Debian maintainers and they packaged itext5.
> Now the question is the same: is this AGPL license [3] allowed in
> Fedora?
No. This does not correct the problem.
Thanks,
Could you be a little more specific? What part makes the license
non-free? What suggestions should we propose to the developers?
Orcan