WhichLicenseApplies

XDocReport Core

Because we love to share our code, we prefer a very weak license. That's why we choose MIT License for our core modules.

MIT License is called a weak license which allow redistribution and modification (Although we appreciate contributions).

Issue with iText based PDF converter

iText is a very powerful Java library for creating PDF. Our iText based converter is by far the best PDF converter that we provide. iText 2.1.7 comes with a LGPL license which is not compliant with our MIT License.

Thus, people that would use and redistribute xdocreport with iText based converter will have to comply with the LGPL license.

This is exactly what we do with our samples : https://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/source/browse/?repo=samples

Which are licensed under LGPL license and not the MIT License.

Users must be aware that we use an "old" version of iText that is not supported anymore by its authors for both technical and legal reasons.

Authors of iText (http://itextpdf.com/), provide now a supported version under AGPL license. There is no XDocReport Converter for this version.