Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly.
> > I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I
> > don't want people to have to deal with the licensing on PDFLib.
> >
>
> Not to pick nits, but is the problem that it's opensource, or rather
> that it's GPL (or some other license with restrictions)? The BSD
> license is, I believe, an opensource license without restriction.
>
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there is also the LGPL which is informailly called the library GPL. It
allows you to use a library in a closed source app. This is in contrast to
a GPL library that would only be allowed in a GPL'd app.
-Kev
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