Hi all, horakdan pointed out an important issue regarding licensing of PoDoFo. The advertising clause in the OpenSSL library is incompatible to the LGPL we use. As OpenSSL is a hard requirement, we have to add a special exception to our license (see below). For a full description of the problem please see: http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html Please see also his issue in our Mantis bug-tracker: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/podofo/view.php?id=55
Therefore, I will add the exception printed below to our license and all source files. Afterwards I will release version 0.9.3. If anyone objects to this change, please speak up now! Best regards, Dominik Special exception: * In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give * permission to link the code of portions of this program with the * OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each * individual source file, and distribute linked combinations * including the two. * You must obey the GNU Lesser General Public License in all respects * for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify * file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your * version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you * do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your * version. If you delete this exception statement from all source * files in the program, then also delete it here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
