On 14 January 2016 at 18:19, Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 January 2016 at 13:58, Ted Roche <tedro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This was discussed last year. I think the mcpdf utility also depends
>> on iText, which has some licensing issues.
>>
>> Here is some of that discussion:
>>
>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65261/pdftk-not-in-f21/
>>
>> I also have client applications that depend on pdftk. My solution was
>> to switch them to Ubuntu.
>>
>
> I'm not sure that was the problem last time, there was also something
> about libgcj being needed. I know this keeps going round in circles,
> so apologies if I'm repeating old information, but I think this is
> what killed it when rpmfusion tried,
> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2009-January/003671.html
>

Current itext license in case mcpdf is actually a possibility. Would
probably need someone from fedora legal to check it's acceptable as
they've used some modifications, which may be allowed by the APL, but
I know itext has a little history with making non-free modifications
to free licenses:
https://github.com/itext/itextpdf/blob/master/LICENSE.md

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