On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 03/06/2014 06:41 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> >>> pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that >>> uses a Java library (iText) through CNI. I once tried to rewrite >>> the C++ part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite >>> involved, so I didn't quite get there. >>> >>> Switch to pdftk version 2 doesn't change the basic architecture of >>> the program. >>> >>> (We really want to get rid of GCJ.) >> >> An additional reason is the fact, that pdftk2 may depend on iText5 or later. >> For licensing reasons Fedora only provides iText-2.1.7 at the last release >> of iText wihout any known licensing issues. >> >> That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora >> anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone >> who maintaining any package with dependencies on this package. > > This is why pdftk died. We can't include iText5+ because of its > licensing issues. >
Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that works with itext2? Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
