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_JamesA_02/20/20252 repliesview on HN

I stopped using iText back when it changed licensing because the developer wanted his government to pay to use it (or something like that). What ever happened with that fiasco?


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bklyn1120102/20/2025

The classname "lowagie" will live forever in the memory of Java developers, but we've all abandoned itext for the fork:

  https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
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DannyB202/20/2025

JasperReports library used that library, and forked it at it's last LGPL version.