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Xportability / css-to-pdf

Convert any HTML page or region to PDF - supports CSS, SVG, embedded XML objects, and more..
http://www.cloudformatter.com/CSS2Pdf
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Add a clear information about the licensing. #26

Open gilberto-torrezan opened 8 years ago

gilberto-torrezan commented 8 years ago

I couldn't find any clear, direct reference of the license of the project. Can I use it in my commercial project? Can I modify and distribute the modified version? Do I have to say somewhere in my project that I use css-to-pdf library?

All that stuff is covered by the license declaration.

kbrown01 commented 8 years ago

We put no license on the actual Javascript, you can do what you wish with it. We would hope improvements would be donated back to the community.

Realize that the Javascript does call our server to format.

That is discussed here in the FAQs:

http://www.cloudformatter.com/CSS2Pdf.APIDoc.FAQ

“It is "free" in the sense that you are "free" to use it. There are no warranties, guarantees, uptimes or anything promised. If you want those things, we have commercial offerings you can http://www.cloudformatter.com/Contact ask us about. It should also be noted that you are "free" to not abuse the service. We only monitor site volumes and where requests come from. If large abuses occur in formatting that impact other "free-to-use" folks, we will be "free" to block the site or propose one of the commercial offerings”

To us, it means it you are exceeding 500 pages/day from all your customers then you should contact us about commercial offerings.

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All that stuff is covered by the license declaration.

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gilberto-torrezan commented 8 years ago

The thing is, we are considering adding your library as a Widget on the GWT Material project, and offer it to our users. The project is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

But we can't do such a thing with libs that have viral or restrictive open-source licenses, as it could harm our user base.

I read your FAQ before posting this issue here, and while it says that the lib is free, it doesn't make clear whether we can use and distribute it inside our project or not - and in a way that can be added to commercial projects and repackaged/redistributed elsewhere.

My suggestion is to put a LICENSE file on the root of your project, either by using a standard open source license (MIT, Apache and so on) or stating your terms directly.