Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!LeVffQP25j5GAigzc2gaQA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Any software law experts? Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 20:21:00 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <619582eb-1eb4-4198-9858-eb8992822103n@googlegroups.com> <969410dc-6fba-4361-82ff-b4b2979fe6fbn@googlegroups.com> <5e7d70de-36f6-4072-8322-24f01652c1d5n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="50669"; posting-host="LeVffQP25j5GAigzc2gaQA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:39852 On 11/9/2022 2:55 PM, e.d.pro...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 2:50:15 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> The copyright owner can issue whatever license he/she wants. >> > Now, once they've released that code, that license should have to stick with that version. Whoever got it under a certain license got it under that license. > That just leaves the other 2 questions. > Is the iText LGPL license valid on v4.2.0 (and thus acceptable on the openpdf project)? OpenPDF is under LGPL itself so I would assume so. Why would it not? > Is the iText MPL license invalid on v2.1.7, and does that invalidate > (not legal) every project that depends on it, particularly > jasperreports/dynamicreports? Per FSF then MPL 2.0 is compatible with GPL and LGPL while MPL 1.x is not GPL compatible - they do not mention LGPL but I assume non-compatible with that as well. If this is important for you then you should really consult a lawyer that specializes in open source licenses to get real legal advice. Arne