1 Aug
2012
1 Aug
'12
4:19 a.m.
On 07/31/2012 09:54 PM, Mark Wallace wrote:
Thanks for the research, everybody.
Now for another one. XWiki 4.0 and 4.1.2 (and possibly others? I'm downloading
4.1.3 now to check it but has 54 minutes left) have itext-2.1.5.jar in the lib directory.
http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/index.php says it is copy lefted under an AGPL license,
and says,
"Buying such a license is mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities
distributing the iText software inside your product or deploying it on a network without
disclosing the source code of your own applications under the AGPL license."
This sounds about as copy lefted as GPL to me. Is this jar file used/mandatory for xwiki
4.1.x?
You're wrong, the AGPL is actually more viral/restrictive than GPL.
I traced back to JFreeChart, another LGPL library that we're using for
generating charts. I don't think that we need iText, since we're not
generating PDF versions of the charts, so I guess that if you want to
stay clear of the AGPL, you could try to remove it from your lib directory.
I raised
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3552914&group_id=1…
hoping to get this problem addressed (still no answer from Infinispan).
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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