http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |oget.fedora(a)gmail.com --- Comment #1 from Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; 2009-01-26 08:27:12 --- Perhaps it would be good to give a brief history of this package. All of this information can be found in Redhat Bugzilla by searching "itext" and "pdftk" - pdftk is an old project which did not see any updates in the past 2+ years - pdftk contains parts of an earlier version of itext (java) statically linked - that earlier version of itext contains parts of an earlier version of bouncycastle embedded - some folks find out that this version of itext contains proprietary Sun code - itext and pdftk get removed from Fedora 7 - itext clears the license issues with Sun and becomes free again - oget packages the new version of itext for Fedora 10+ - oget (and possibly others) receives/reads requests to package pdftk. - But with pdftk's version of itext, this is no easy task. The way itext and its dependencies (bouncycastle, pdf-renderer, dom4j) are packaged by their upstreams, one has to do some rigorous work to provide JNI subpackages for each of them, so that pdftk can link to itext-jni (which will link to bouncycastle-jni, ...) dynamically. Additionally, itext saw big modifications since pdftk "borrowed" this old version. Therefore it is quite possible that even if someone steps up and builds these JNI subpackages, one will have to patch pdftk to make it compatible with them. Well, we waited for 2 months and nobody stepped up (I talked to many people in fedora-java but I don't think they're much interested). Then I suggested Jochen to bring this package over to rpmfusion. It can go back to Fedora, but that requires some serious work as I described above. Hence I think this package is suitable for rpmfusion-free for the time being. Here's the last bits of this story: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811 I will review the package if other people think it is okay. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343 --- Comment #3 from Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; 2009-01-26 20:20:26 --- (In reply to comment #2) Yes. Thanks for the correction. Afaict pdftk didn't remove that code. The header of that piece of code was changed to reflect the fact that it is freed. Yet there are other parts of pdftk where there might be some API breakage. You may be right, but on a second thought I realized a subtlety here. The code is freed after it was taken by pdftk. Therefore the headers in the pdftk package do not reflect this fact. I am not 100% sure whether that piece of code should be regarded as nonfree. But then again, FE-Legal isn't happy enough to put this package in Fedora so we might as well stick to their opinion and label this package as nonfree. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343 --- Comment #5 from Jochen Schmitt <Jochen(a)herr-schmitt.de&gt; 2009-02-03 16:51:32 --- Yes, but as far as I know, this may not a easy task. Even if we have a CNI subpackage for iText, We have to migrate pdftk to IText2 which should be no full compatible to the release bundled in pdftk. So I thin, it may be helpful to have a version of pdftk in rpmfusion.org. If we have a clean solution of pdftk in Fedora we can remove this package in rpmfusion. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks|2 | Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #7 from Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; 2009-03-14 21:08:50 --- okay, we managed to patch pdftk to make it completely free of patent issues and built the package in Fedora (devel and 10). There is no need to package this in RPMFusion anymore. Closing... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.