On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 03/06/2014 06:41 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that
>> uses a Java library (iText) through CNI. I once tried to rewrite
>> the C++ part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite
>> involved, so I didn't quite get there.
>>
>> Switch to pdftk version 2 doesn't change the basic architecture of
>> the program.
>>
>> (We really want to get rid of GCJ.)
>
> An additional reason is the fact, that pdftk2 may depend on iText5 or later.
> For licensing reasons Fedora only provides iText-2.1.7 at the last release
> of iText wihout any known licensing issues.
>
> That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora
> anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone
> who maintaining any package with dependencies on this package.
This is why pdftk died. We can't include iText5+ because of its
licensing issues.
Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that
works with itext2?
Orcan