Hi, > 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?
That's an interesting topic. Just being curious: What's the amount to pay for a commercial iText license? We had the same problem and decided to fork iText 2.1.7. We are also heavily working on that base trying to refactor all these bad little things out of the code and applying additional fixes. I would happily pay some money to get a lib and support but with the currently non-existent professional support for iText asking for money does not represent the state of the project at least to me. Just my 2c, Campus
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