Hi
I have a question about itext in jasperreports. I know that itext is on AGPL license, but I heard that itext has exception for jasperreports. Is it true that when I using itext trought by jasperreports, it is on LGPL license and I can use it for non opensource projects? There is some official information about this?
3 Answers:
Hi,
JRL uses a forked version of iText 2.1.7 in which we implemented a custom feature to deal with fonts that have ligatures. We stayed with iText 2.1.7 under the terms of the MPL.
JRL built-in PDF exporter would not even work with newer iText, because they changed the package names when moving to iText 5+.
Thanks,
Teodor
Hi,
JasperReports uses iText version 2.1.7, which was released under an MPL/LGPL dual license.
Later releases of iText, starting with 5.0 have moved onto AGPL, which prevents use in commercial products.
We had a brief attempt to upgrade to iText 5+ a few years ago, based on some contract we had with iText, but decided to pull it back as we experienced difficulties.
Right now, if you need iText 5+ (although from JRL we don't need any feature that did not exist in iText 2.1.7), you could go with a separate JR exporter project which can be found here:
https://github.com/Jaspersoft/jasperreports-pdf-lib5
This exporter is also AGPL, to comply with iText 5+ license.
If you indeed purchase iText 5 commercial license, I'm sure we can arrange for a commercial one for the exporter.
Right now, the exporter is work in progress, but if there is enough interest, I'm sure it can be finished soon.
Thanks,
Teodor
Hi Teodor ,
Thank you for replay.
I don't need itext 5, but I would like to use newest jasperreports library version on web application. So I thought that in newest version of JR is using itext on AGPL license.
But you sure that newest version JR don't using itext on AGPL version?
Thanks.
