Using PDFCreator in a commercial application
Submitted by marceloshb on Wed, 2008-03-12 15:21.
Hi!
I am developing a commercial application and my application needs to print some files in .pdf format automatically. (it will receive a .doc file and it will store this .doc file in .pdf)
I was wondering to use PDFCreator to do it. So, my application will depends to PDFCreator.
Can I do it without break GNU-GPL license?
Thanks.
This is not a simple thing.
1.) PDFCreator setup as package with different components. One of this component is redmon. The license of redmon is AFPL and that means you can't sell redmon and you can't sell PDFCreator or another Software coming with PDFCreator.
2.) If you application using the com interface then your application is linked with PDFCreator. That means that you have you deploy your application under the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
Best regards,
Frank