Quoting Tim Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Bruno, > > My name is Tim Sullivan and I am the CEO of activePDF, Inc.. I am writing > this email to shed some light on a possible infringer of your copyright with > "iText". > > As we find "competitors" on the landscape, we try to audit their software as > best as we can to determine if they are violating our licensing agreements or > infringing upon our copyrights or trademarks. Many times, however, we find > that they are infact infringing upon other companies or individuals such as > yourself. During our recent "audit" of a competitor, we found that they > appear to be using "iText" in a manner not in compliance with your licensing; > note that we have found that this particular company in the past has violated > other open source agreements. They are also infringing upon our copyright > within their documentation as well. > > The company in question is "veryPDF" and the product is "PDF Editor Toolkit". > Note that they have several products and iText may be used within these > other products as well. If you download and extract the ZIP file at > http://www.verypdf.com/pdfsdk/pdf_editor_toolkit_pro_trial.zip, you will > notice a file called pdfpg.dll. You must then use the extractor "UPX" > (available at http://upx.sourceforge.net/) to unpack the DLL ("upx -d > pdfpg.dll"). Using a hex editor, you can find several references to > "lowagie." which led me to you. > > Now, if this company has procured a license from you or they are in fact > using iText in compliance with your license, pardon my intrusion and please > accept my apologies.
veryPDF is unknown to me, so they didn't get a license from me. > If they are not, however, I would like to continue this conversation with you > as this company has profited from not only your hard work but others as > well. Thanks for letting me know about the possible license violation. For the moment I have lots of deadlines to meet at my job, so I forward this mail to the mailing-list as Paulo Soares and possibly Leonard Rosenthol will be interested to hear this too. I work at a University. If veryPdf is indeed violating the license, I will pass your mail to the legal department and to the Faculty of Law to hear what they think about it. > Sincerely, > > Tim Sullivan > CEO > activePDF, Inc. > > It's everybody's PDF!(tm) > > http://www.activepdf.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (866) GOTO PDF > Leading the iPaper Revolution(tm) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
