Hello. I'm also interested in 2.x continuity.
As far as I can see it would be legal to fork the 2.x branch. Similar situations have occurred previously when projects have changed their licences. For example, InterBase went open source and then promptly changed its mind back to closed source, but we got Firebird out of it. More recently, the Illumos project may gain a lot of traction due to Oracle dropping OpenSolaris. Whether this would work with iText would depend entirely on the amount of effort independent developers wanted to put into it. The amount of effort put into iText by the core developers is surely impressive. Regards John Hurst Wellington, New Zealand On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Ricardo Andre Redder Junior < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to the list, so I'm sorry if this question has > already been answered... I made a quick search and haven't found > anything, if this is the case, please just point me to the answer and I will > be glad to read there. > > As far as I understood, the version 2 is under MPL/LGPL license which in > turns, allow commercial usage of the library with no requirement to buy a > license or share the code, as we are used to, differently from version 5, > which is under AGPL. So, my question is about the continuity of branch v2.x, > would it be OK for the community to continue the development of this > version? I mean, would there be any legal issue continuing the development > of this version, keeping the same license? For instance, submitting patches, > adding features, etc., independently of version 5. > > Regards, > > -- > > *Ricardo A. Redder Jr.* > > Product Engineering > > Spring Wireless > Office: +55 (11) 3076-8342 > Fax: +55 (11) 3472-7001 > > Mobile: +55 (11) 9883-1318 > > E-mail: *[email protected]* > > Skype: *ricardo.redder* > > Site: www.springwireless.com > > > > *[image: SpringWireless_Color_wHorizontalTag_firma]* > > > > ***Disclaimer***: http://pt.springwireless.com/Legal.htm > > * > **Antes de imprimir, pense em sua responsabilidade com o meio ambiente.* > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Life is interfering with my game
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