IMPORTANT changement de licence - Page 1

Afin de faciliter l'utilisation de HTML2PDF dans les projets commerciaux, HTML2PDF est maintenant distribué sous la licence LGPL !

La licence GPL était trop restrictive, et non adaptée, pour une librairie comme HTML2PDF, qui peut être utilisée dans des projets commerciaux qui ne peuvent pas forcement être sous licence GPL.

ATTENTION : ce changement de licence ne concerne donc que les nouvelles versions à partir de la 3.22a (15/06/2009)

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To facilitate the use of html2pdf in commercial projects, html2pdf is now distributed under the license LGPL !

The GPL is too restrictive and not suitable for a library as html2pdf which can be used in commercial projects which may not necessarily be under the GPL.

WARNING: This change only applies to the new versions from the 3.22a (2009-06-15)

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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL

The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter can be linked to (in the case of a library, 'used by') a non-(L)GPLed program, and regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.[1] This non-(L)GPLed program can then be distributed under any chosen terms if it is not a derivative work. If it is a derivative work, then the terms must allow "modification for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications." Whether a work that uses an LGPL program is a derivative work or not is a legal issue. A standalone executable that dynamically links to a library is generally accepted as not being a derivative work. It would be considered a "work that uses the library" and paragraph 5 of the LGPL applies.