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iText0.81: Multiple License

There is a new release of iText, a free JAVA PDF library!
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

The most important change in this new release is the License.
iText was originally released under LGPL. However, more and
more commercial products began using iText and there was
a frequently returning demand for a less strict license than LGPL.
That's why we (Paulo and Bruno) decided to publish iText under
MPL and LGPL. You (the user) now have the choice: if you want to
continue distributing iText under LGPL, fine, just remove the MPL
stuff (your allowed to do this). If you use iText in a commercial product,
just upgrade iText to version 0.81 and distribute iText under MPL
with LGPL as possible alternative license.

There were also some technical improvements in version 0.81:
phillip@formstar.com has contributed his code for SpotColor support.
Paulo integrated this code into iText. I fixed some bugs in the
experimental XML packages.
You can read all about it here: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/history.html

Finally you should also go and visit:
http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions%40lists.sourceforge.net/
Since yesterday, all messages sent to the mailing list
itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net are archived here.
In contrast to the GeoCrawler archives, this new archive is SEARCHABLE
(which will be a major improvement for the people who have to answer and
reanswer the same questions over and over again).

Posted by Bruno Lowagie 2002-01-21

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