Knox, Bernine wrote: > We have a client that asked if we could get a commercial license from > you for iText. Is this something you can provide to us for review? > Your colleague Torsten Haase already asked the same question. I refered to Leonard Rosenthol, but I think this was not an option, because Leonard sells a contract under the same terms as the MPL.
Your client wants an Apache or BSD license (but that's out of the question), or a 'commercial' license. Note that the word 'commercial' is not well chosen, because it gives the impression that MPL'ed software isn't commercial (and that just isn't true). I think your client's problem is self inflicted. To me, it's a problem based on the interpretation of words. Your client could probably solve it with a 'simple' update of his policy (I put the word 'simple' between quotes because you haven't disclosed the name of your client; maybe if you did, you would find out that other affiliates of your client are already using iText under the MPL). If changing the policy is not an option, you should contact the Technology Transfer Office of Ghent University. I have sent the mail address of one of our lawyers to your colleague. I don't think our lawyer has sent an answer to Torsten yet, but yesterday I received a mail from him that he is working on a solution that would allow us to address requests like this in the future. Of course no decision will be made without Paulo Soares' consent! best regards, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
