On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 23:38 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
On 11/11/2007, Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > What are the other of the "several" issues with the license? Could
the
> > ex-package maintainer offer a bit more explanation?
> >
>
> Aha, a bit of digging leads to:
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236309
>
> which details the problems with itext licensing (on which pdftk
> depends). I guess the nuclear use is a small issue compared to the
> others :(.
>
To continue the monologue, it seems itext upstream is now entirely
licensed as either LGPL 2 or MPL. As such, I can't see a reason it
can't be reinstated in Fedora.
If someone points me at a new package for itext, I'd be happy to do a
quick audit to confirm that it is OK for Fedora now.
~spot