Need a licence for usage in published program?

[Ralf Hauenschild <ra...@uni-mainz.de>]

Ladies and gentlemen,

I'm about to use PDFBox in a Java application, which will be published 
most likely under OGL / GNU Licence.

It's a bioinformatic open source research tool, available to everybody 
for free.

Do I have to buy any licence for PDFBox?
And would I, if the Java tool was commercial?

Best regards,

Ralf Hauenschild

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Re: Need a licence for usage in published program?

[Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>]

Hi,

> Am 23.10.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Ralf Hauenschild <ra...@uni-mainz.de>:
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen,
> 
> I'm about to use PDFBox in a Java application, which will be published most likely under OGL / GNU Licence.
> 
> It's a bioinformatic open source research tool, available to everybody for free.
> 
> Do I have to buy any licence for PDFBox?
> And would I, if the Java tool was commercial?

PDFBox is licensed according to the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>. In addition you can find some information about using Apache licensed software in GPL licensed software http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html <http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html>. Hope that helps to answer your question.

BR
Maruan

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ralf Hauenschild
> 
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