Re: [Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-03-05 Thread Dominik Seichter
Sure, just send me your sourceforge username and i will give you svn permissions. The signature stuff is also a very welcome addition. Cheers Dom Am 05.03.2013 17:45 schrieb "Ugo Chirico" : > Hi Dom. > Yes, I'm able to port podofo to Crypto++. > Also, I'm still have the patches for digital signat

Re: [Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-03-05 Thread Ugo Chirico
Hi Dom. Yes, I'm able to port podofo to Crypto++. Also, I'm still have the patches for digital signature (PAdES compliant) that can be added. I think it will take a month, more or less, considering all other stuffs I'm working on now. I prefer the SVN account if you can let me know... Regards,

Re: [Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-03-04 Thread Dominik Seichter
Hi guys, Thanks for discussing the license situation and bringing some light into this! @Ugo: A port to Crypto++ would be a good idea! PoDoFo references OpenSSL only from within PdfEncrypt.cpp, as far as I can see. Are you able to do a port to Crypto++? Can you estimate how long that would take y

Re: [Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-03-02 Thread Ugo Chirico
Yes, correct! Thanks for your correction. Finally, the good news is that the combined work PoDoFo + Crypto++ can be seen as LGPL from the point of view of the using application. --- Ugo Chirico http://www.cryptware.com blog: http://www.ugochirico.com linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ugoc

Re: [Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-03-02 Thread Even Rouault
> It has almost all features of OpenSSL and it isn't under GPL. Not exactly. Quoting the site : """Crypto++ Library is copyrighted as a compilation and (as of version 5.6.2) licensed under the Boost Software License 1.0, while the individual files in the compilation are all public domain."""

Re: [Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-03-01 Thread Ugo Chirico
Hi Dominik, did you think to use Crypto++ instead of OpenSSL? http://www.cryptopp.com/ It has almost all features of OpenSSL and it isn't under GPL. Where do you use OpenSSL in the new version of PoDoFo? I'm still using my modifed version of 0.9.2 and I don't see any reference to OpenSSL. I can

[Podofo-users] PoDoFo/OpenSSL Licensing problem

2013-02-28 Thread Dominik Seichter
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 pl