Hi Mark,
with "Individual patches/changes/whatever-you-want-to-call-them"
bugfixes i meant that stuff which people are contributing to the fork. I
wasn't speaking about code which is contributed to itext 5.x.
That's perfectly legal because people are directly (and willingly)
contributing to the fork.
Regards,
ToM
2010/9/23 Mark Storer <>
> >7.) ... The minimal thing
> >would be to collect the changes/bugfixes/improvements made
> >by others and integrate it into the fork...
>
> Be VERY careful of this one. Individual
> patches/changes/whatever-you-want-to-call-them are owned by their authors
> and placed under the project's license voluntarily. Anything contributed
> after the switch to AGPL is under that (viral) license unless you get
> permission from the individual who submitted it to add it to a non-AGPL
> fork. Don't be too shocked if they say "no"... expect it in the case of the
> project leads/contributors.
>
> Changes submitted to the mailing list without any license attribution are
> up in the air. Might be kosher, might not. Lawyer territory.
>
> Even looking at the source of an AGPL change before writing your own opens
> you up to Legal Action... a la "dirivative works".
>
> Forks are a pain, copyright law is a pain, international law is a pain. Is
> all that pain greater than the pain involved in being seperated from your
> money? Only you can decide that.
>
>
> Having said all that, I maintain my own fork for use by my employer. I
> started it way back with 1.44paulo (long before there was any issue with
> such things), and have since integrated it with 2.1.4. I'd like to get on
> the trunk, but between some of the changes I've made which have been turned
> down for one reason or another and Corporate Reluctance to license ANY third
> party software... odds aren't good. I DO NOT port patches from 5.x to my
> fork.
>
> I'm hoping that at some point we'll NEED something from the trunk, at which
> point The Powers That Be will exchange X dev time for a license. Expenses
> can get torpedoed by the higher-ups... but my time? Not their concern.
>
> --Mark Storer
> Senior Software Engineer
> Cardiff.com
>
> import legalese.Disclaimer;
> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
>
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