We also thought about making a fork for bug-fixing and improvements for concurrent-algorithms. Please write me if you want to start a fork.
Kind regards Sebastian -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:19:41 +0200 > Von: TvT <[email protected]> > An: Post all your questions about iText here > <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License > Just read the whole thread and it sounded like the internal discussion we > had in our company as well. > We are willing to pay for such a great lib, however not 10K-12,5K which > would basically eat up the budget. Of course one can argue that the > project > calculation/budget is wrong but reality is more complicated than that... > > So currently we are using 2.1.7 and we are fine, even thought of making a > fork to that version... > The idea of a 'per developer license' sounds interesting to me... > > Good discussion, > ToM > > 2010/4/25 Michael Schmodt <[email protected]> > > > > > > > 2010/4/25 David Hoffer <[email protected]> > > > > I don't disagree with the last couple replies, however I will point > >> out that iText is the one that caused the mis-expectations on price. > >> Since prior versions cost $0 it is quite a shock to learn that new > >> versions cost $12,500. (Please understand I'm not saying $0 is the > >> right price.) What makes it even harder is that there are no > >> published prices for the new version of iText. > >> > >> Unless your doing waterfall development (so you think you know > >> everything up front) you don't always know what's needed at the > >> beginning. If I would go to my customer with a Y charge of $12,500 > >> that would be the end of it. > >> > >> I'm only saying all this because I was asked to explain, in my case > >> the older 2.x version is just fine and FOP a viable option if iText > >> continues with the current pricing. > >> > >> > > I agree with Dave! I think, it is fair to pay the iText developers for > > their fantastic work. I do not have a problem with that. > > > > The problem: For my customers, it is completely irrelevant, what > > investments I have to do, to build an application. They give me 5000 > bucks > > in total to deliver a programm. If there are license fees, it's me who > has > > to deal with it. If I do not comply, somebody else get's the job. The > > applications aren't targeted at the mass market, so there aren't huge > > numbers of copies of the programms. When calculating the price, it's > about > > 7% or 12 $ per programm that I earn (minus costs, taxes ...). I do not > have > > exact numbers, but that should be quite representative. > > > > I surely can agree, that the customer and not the developer should care > > about the license, but unfortunately, that is not the way life is. The > > customers are from non IT businesses who want additions/extension to > > existing non IT products. They never heard of LGPL, GPL, AGPL or license > > fees for software libraries. I agree with Dave, that 300 $ would be > > perfectly fine and after all, 300$ from single developers is for you as > well > > a question of getting 300$ or getting no fees and letting developer > stick > > with earlier versions of itext or using other libraries. > > > > I hope, I didn't upset you. This is not what I want. As I said, I like > > iText very much and would like to use it in the future. I respect your > > decission to change the license and to get a share from the profits of > > those, who use your lib. Try to see this debate as a valuable feedback > to > > determine optimal prices for the lib, that can maximize your income as > > well. > > > > By, > > Michael > > -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
