> And for what... the price for a license of iText? What corporation > would > balance the potential for multi-hundreds of thousands of dollar lawsuit > against $2000 or whatever it might be. It will cost the company more > than $2000 in legal fees to review the LGPL and its use in iText.
The problem here is that iText is much more expensive if someone want to ship it with a native client application installed on several thousand computers where the PDF printing is just a little feature of thousands of others. It would be no problem to pay 2000$ for a general license but the current license scheme is ridiculous because it would force license buyers to report number of client installations back to you which are then used to come up with the amount of money to pay. That's simply not acceptable for such a small library. For example the xPDF library which renders PDF on any imaginable platform (and contains much more complicated code than iText) is a one-pay 1500$ lib with no further restrictions (OEM). If the same would apply for iText I would be happy to pay but with the current licensing scheme: no thanks... Another thing to keep in mind: the responses on this list on bug reports or questions are usually one of these: 1. Buy the book without any further explanation or just a short hint where to find something 2. You are using the old version, we won't help you because of that 3. Sometimes no response at all This behavior does not match the price point of your lib and really does not encourages one to buy. Just my 2c, Campus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
