I suspect you're thinking of me. I maintain a fork that was originally from "paulo 144", and was (mostly) ported to 2.0.4 relatively recently.
It's really not for Public Consumption. Lots of Cardiff-specific cruft in there, along with a couple patches/features that were rejected from the trunk because they caused problems when you use iText in a way other than the way I do. Yes, we run the unit tests, but those tests (clearly) aren't all that comprehensive. That's what the users are for! :/ Autonomy (of which Cardiff is a part) has a "we don't pay for 3rd party licenses" thing going on. With that "policy" in place, we can never use the post-AGPL version. Or can we? Should it come to it, I suspect we might be able to trade some developer hours (mine) for a license, but it has not come to that, so we haven't explored it with iTextSoftware (yet). --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: David Hoffer [mailto:dhoff...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:09 AM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in > terms of License > > I'm not trying to vote for a fork just pointing out that > someone in this thread (or recent thread) said they DID fork; > so if your thinking of doing the same you might want to share > resources with one that already did the fork. > > -Dave > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:49 AM, 1T3XT info <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote: > > Michael Olenick wrote: > >> People -- Call or write to Bruno's sales agent. > > > > Thanks! > > > > I've had a speed course in economics at > http://www.vlerick.com/ last > > year, discovering there's more to the IT business than writing code. > > > > It's all about the business model, not just the business model used > > for iText, but also the business model of the end user/developer. > > > > You've explained that very well. We are using a license (be it the > > AGPL, or a commercial license) because that's better for > everyone. If > > you choose the AGPL, you share your code. If you choose the > commercial > > license, you share some of your revenue. > > > > The situation before the AGPL was not healthy. At some point, I had > > the impression I was being suffocated: plenty of people > were mailing > > me personally, DEMANDING a solution for their problem. I > didn't have > > any time to think about new code anymore, and that's not > good: a good > > product has to offer continuity! > > > > Recently, I attended an event where I had a talk with a CEO of a > > company who had been using iText for years. He said that he was now > > looking for another free product "because he could no > longer use iText." > > I asked him how much switching to another library would > cost in terms > > of development, and what he would do if that other free library > > decided to change its license too (because it's easy to run a F/OSS > > product if you're not successful, but it's a lot of hard > work as soon > > as people actually start using it). > > He hadn't thought about that yet, but I saw that he realized that > > would probably cost him far more than to have another chat > with sales. > > So it goes... > > -- > > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > 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/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > 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/ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.814 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2842 - Release > Date: 05/10/10 23:26:00 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net 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/
