2010/4/22 Bruno Lowagie <br...@lowagie.com> > Michael Olenick wrote: > > If you're making money from iText -- with "making money" being defined > > as somebody is paying you -- you should pay for it. There's a lot of > > hard work that went into the creation and support of this awesome > > tool. > > Thanks! > best regards, > Bruno > > That's very interessting: I am working both in research at an university and within a small startup (spin off) from the university. The software projects are closed source freeware and closed source commercial software with a share of about 50% each. I requested information about obtaining a commercial license and I was pretty astonished: The license fees were magnitudes beyond the complete project budgets with very strict obligations. I am really willing to obtain a license and to pay several 100 $ for it and I find it absolutely ok for the developers to earn money with their fantastic library. But: The current license fees are affordable for big industries only. I already thought about stopping to use iText or to stick with 2.1.7. After all,within my programms this is only a small component for generating reports in order to show the results of computation processes. I think, there are a lot of small projects and developers who are in the same situation. If there is another way, I would appreciate this very much, and as I said: I really like your lib and I am really willing to pay for it. But I can't invest 150% of the whole budgets on the reporting component only, and I am not willing to report the number of distribution number several times a year. Have you ever thought about single developer licenses with no fees for redistribution?
Bye, Michael
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