Oops you were clear, my bad.

That's indeed an issue and we can't force itext 4.2.0 to use another compatible 
itextpdf version.

Because itext 4.2.0 has a dependency on itextpdf from start and itextpdf is 
AGPL from start

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.lowagie/itext

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itextpdf

I suspect itext versions before 4.2.0 were not able of supporting PDF rendering

Now our dependency come out of Birt. So maybe we need to update Birt?

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/175386/ (and links there)

But that sounds not good 
https://developers.itextpdf.com/question/versions-older-than-5

Jacques


Le 08/06/2018 à 10:40, Scott Gray a écrit :
Hey Jacques,

Maybe I wasn't clear, OFBiz is downloading 5.5.6 as a dependency of 4.2.0,
does it make sense?

Regards
Scott


On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 19:30 Jacques Le Roux, <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
wrote:

I suggest this comment, a Jira seems appropriate

-    compile 'com.lowagie:itext:4.2.0'
+    compile 'com.lowagie:itext:4.2.0' // don't update to 5+ because of
license change

Jacques


Le 08/06/2018 à 09:26, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
Le 08/06/2018 à 09:24, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
Hi Scott,

Reading Wikipedia It's OK as long as we don't update to a version >= 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IText
Here is another source for MPL licensing:
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/175386/
<<The source code was initially distributed as open source under the
Mozilla Public License <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License>
or the GNU Library General Public License <
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.en.html> open source
licenses. However, as of version
5.0.0 (released Dec 7, 2009) it is distributed under the Affero General
Public License
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License> version
3.>>
MPL being OK as binary

Jacques

Le 08/06/2018 à 03:57, Scott Gray a écrit :
Hi All,

I just noticed that the iText maven bundle is a bit tricksy and
includes
iText 5.6.6 as a dependency, with the latter being GPL licensed.  You
can
see it by running "./gradlew -q dependencies":
+--- com.lowagie:itext:4.2.0
|    \--- com.itextpdf:itextpdf:5.5.6

I haven't checked to see if the later version is actually used by our
code
and I'm not sure if merely downloading it causes licensing issues, but
I
thought I'd bring the question here in case anyone else has already
looked
into it.  Not sure what the work-around would be if it is an issue.

Regards
Scott





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