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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "Chaubey, Pankaj (CCL)" <PC...@carnival.com.INVALID> on 2020/01/02 18:42:51 UTC
Licensing Inquiry
Hello,
We have a requirement to programmatically generate PDFs, which will be used to distribute information to our customers. We don't plan to use this application commercially or license this application/product. The intent is solely to use it internally for generating PDFs with different contents, as applicable. Apache PDFBox is a robust product in this space.
Questions for you
1) What are the restrictions of using the free version of PDFBox? Do I need to follow a certain directive such as printing a particular text ("powered by Apache") on the generated PDFs?
2) Can I use the free version on any number of servers/instances or are there any restrictions?
Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest.
Thanks,
Pankaj K Chaubey, TOGAF
Manager - Integration Architecture and Engineering (EA)
Carnival Cruise Line | 3655 NW 87th Avenue | Miami, FL 33178 |
p: 305.599.2600 Ext. 65645 | f: 305.406.4760 | e: pchaubey@carnival.com<ma...@carnival.com>
Re: Licensing Inquiry
Posted by Fantri Fitriani <fa...@gmail.com>.
Pada tanggal Jum, 3 Jan 2020 03.43, Chaubey, Pankaj (CCL)
<PC...@carnival.com.invalid> menulis:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We have a requirement to programmatically generate PDFs, which will be
> used to distribute information to our customers. We don't plan to use this
> application commercially or license this application/product. The intent is
> solely to use it internally for generating PDFs with different contents, as
> applicable. Apache PDFBox is a robust product in this space.
>
>
>
> Questions for you
>
> 1) What are the restrictions of using the free version of PDFBox? Do I
> need to follow a certain directive such as printing a particular text
> ("powered by Apache") on the generated PDFs?
>
> 2) Can I use the free version on any number of servers/instances or are
> there any restrictions?
>
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> *Pankaj K Chaubey, TOGAF Manager – Integration Architecture and
> Engineering (EA)*
> *Carnival Cruise Line* | 3655 NW 87th Avenue | Miami, FL 33178 |
> p: 305.599.2600 Ext. 65645 | f: 305.406.4760 | e: pchaubey@carnival.com
>
>
>
RE: Licensing Inquiry
Posted by "Chaubey, Pankaj (CCL)" <PC...@carnival.com.INVALID>.
Hello Roman,
Thanks for your quick response!
Thanks,
Pankaj K Chaubey, TOGAF
Manager – Integration Architecture and Engineering (EA)
Carnival Cruise Line | 3655 NW 87th Avenue | Miami, FL 33178 |
p: 305.599.2600 Ext. 65645 | f: 305.406.4760 | e: pchaubey@carnival.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Shaposhnik [mailto:roman@shaposhnik.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2020 2:57 PM
To: legal-discuss@apache.org; Chaubey, Pankaj (CCL)
Subject: Re: Licensing Inquiry
Hi Pankaj!
first of all, this mailing list is not a replacement for obtaining a
proper legal advice.
I suggest you talk to your legal counsel and determine whether the terms of the
open source license governing PDFBox (and any other Apache Software Foundation
projects) are acceptable to you:
The license itself can be found here:
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apache.org%2Flicenses%2FLICENSE-2.0&data=02%7C01%7CPChaubey%40carnival.com%7Ccf4a414f5b0e4769296c08d78fbde928%7C9e37b9e905de4906b089536f19689074%7C0%7C0%7C637135918143997241&sdata=3nyTmi97tLyMNxPB7SQZojXuoRiixLG7%2FfPcCRdxY%2Bg%3D&reserved=0
In addition to that, you may be interested in reviewing our policy for
allowable uses of
Apache® trademarks by other parties:
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apache.org%2Ffoundation%2Fmarks%2F&data=02%7C01%7CPChaubey%40carnival.com%7Ccf4a414f5b0e4769296c08d78fbde928%7C9e37b9e905de4906b089536f19689074%7C0%7C0%7C637135918143997241&sdata=sJ4EU6ItDlruowmzIZvS22QLVd%2FAMHLOHz0Fw4oxDPw%3D&reserved=0
should such use be required in your case.
Finally, when you write "free version of PDFBox" you seem to be
implying that there
are non-free versions as well. I'd like to point out that Apache
PDFBox is a free software
library available under the terms of Apache License version 2 and as
such is only
subject to the constraints outlined in the license itself. For
example, there are no
constraints on the number of servers/instances this library is going
to be used on.
Thanks,
Roman.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:43 AM Chaubey, Pankaj (CCL)
<PC...@carnival.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We have a requirement to programmatically generate PDFs, which will be used to distribute information to our customers. We don't plan to use this application commercially or license this application/product. The intent is solely to use it internally for generating PDFs with different contents, as applicable. Apache PDFBox is a robust product in this space.
>
>
>
> Questions for you
>
> 1) What are the restrictions of using the free version of PDFBox? Do I need to follow a certain directive such as printing a particular text ("powered by Apache") on the generated PDFs?
>
> 2) Can I use the free version on any number of servers/instances or are there any restrictions?
>
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pankaj K Chaubey, TOGAF
> Manager – Integration Architecture and Engineering (EA)
> Carnival Cruise Line | 3655 NW 87th Avenue | Miami, FL 33178 |
> p: 305.599.2600 Ext. 65645 | f: 305.406.4760 | e: pchaubey@carnival.com
>
>
Re: Licensing Inquiry
Posted by Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org>.
Hi Pankaj!
first of all, this mailing list is not a replacement for obtaining a
proper legal advice.
I suggest you talk to your legal counsel and determine whether the terms of the
open source license governing PDFBox (and any other Apache Software Foundation
projects) are acceptable to you:
The license itself can be found here:
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
In addition to that, you may be interested in reviewing our policy for
allowable uses of
Apache® trademarks by other parties:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
should such use be required in your case.
Finally, when you write "free version of PDFBox" you seem to be
implying that there
are non-free versions as well. I'd like to point out that Apache
PDFBox is a free software
library available under the terms of Apache License version 2 and as
such is only
subject to the constraints outlined in the license itself. For
example, there are no
constraints on the number of servers/instances this library is going
to be used on.
Thanks,
Roman.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:43 AM Chaubey, Pankaj (CCL)
<PC...@carnival.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We have a requirement to programmatically generate PDFs, which will be used to distribute information to our customers. We don't plan to use this application commercially or license this application/product. The intent is solely to use it internally for generating PDFs with different contents, as applicable. Apache PDFBox is a robust product in this space.
>
>
>
> Questions for you
>
> 1) What are the restrictions of using the free version of PDFBox? Do I need to follow a certain directive such as printing a particular text ("powered by Apache") on the generated PDFs?
>
> 2) Can I use the free version on any number of servers/instances or are there any restrictions?
>
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you at the earliest.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pankaj K Chaubey, TOGAF
> Manager – Integration Architecture and Engineering (EA)
> Carnival Cruise Line | 3655 NW 87th Avenue | Miami, FL 33178 |
> p: 305.599.2600 Ext. 65645 | f: 305.406.4760 | e: pchaubey@carnival.com
>
>
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