Flying Saucer Latest version license requirements
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Gaurav Srivastava
Aug 6, 2024, 10:20:01 AM8/6/24
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Hi All,
I wanted to use the latest version of Flying Saucer (9.9.0). However the legal reviewer of this jar in my company asked me the following :
"Can
you please confirm the following: is there an alternative to flying saucer that
can be used which would avoid the use of iTextPDF (or – if not - is there a
way to avoid such use of iTextPDF within flying saucer)?
For background, iTextPDF is troublesome: it is dual-licensed by Apryse (the other license is a paid commercial license) and Apryse has been actively contacting commercial software companies that use iTextPDF in its products but have not purchased a commercial license to accuse them of breach (by failing to comply with its requirement to distribute the source code to the application using AGPL-licensed code). Apryse then requires the companies to purchase a commercial license (and to true-up for its prior use), while asserting that even fully internal background processing of PDF files cannot be separated from a hosted application that provides these files to customers.
In short, we should anticipate the potential for significant licensing disputes with Apryse if we deploy iTextPDF within flying saucer without a commercial license."
For background, iTextPDF is troublesome: it is dual-licensed by Apryse (the other license is a paid commercial license) and Apryse has been actively contacting commercial software companies that use iTextPDF in its products but have not purchased a commercial license to accuse them of breach (by failing to comply with its requirement to distribute the source code to the application using AGPL-licensed code). Apryse then requires the companies to purchase a commercial license (and to true-up for its prior use), while asserting that even fully internal background processing of PDF files cannot be separated from a hosted application that provides these files to customers.
In short, we should anticipate the potential for significant licensing disputes with Apryse if we deploy iTextPDF within flying saucer without a commercial license."
Can you please help me out.
Andrei Solntsev
Aug 6, 2024, 2:40:01 PM8/6/24
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Hi Gaurav!
Latest FlyingSaucer does NOT use iText.
It was replaced by OpenPDF (an open-source library with a LGPL and MPL open source license) in these pull requests:
Andrei Solntsev
вт, 6 авг. 2024 г. в 17:20, Gaurav Srivastava <gsriva...@gmail.com>:
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