Are we sure there are no legal issues doing so?
It seems OK at https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.lowagie/itext/4.2.0 (MPL)
But reading https://developers.itextpdf.com/question/versions-older-than-5 which applies also to 4.2.0 (see bottom "Some people claim that they use
iText 4.2.0, but that version has never been officially released") itext seems a legal issue globally (not only itextpdf)
Maybe we should ask legal?
Also from few tests I did, it seems we don't need it to render PDF with Birt.
Please confirm...
Jacques
Le 08/06/2018 à 16:03, Scott Gray a écrit :
Thanks Taher! Perfect simple solution.
Regards
Scott
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 23:19 Taher Alkhateeb, <slidingfilame...@gmail.com>
wrote:
So we exclude the transitive dependency in build.gradle and if everything
works then we're fine.
Syntax:
compile('com.lowagie:itext:4.2.0') {
exclude 'com.itextpdf:itextpdf:5.5.6'
}
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 11:40 AM Scott Gray <scott.g...@hotwaxsystems.com>
wrote:
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
