From: Dossy Date: 2002-09-02T03:18:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby jobs On 2002.09.02, Tom Sawyer wrote: > just looked at pdflib. it is commerical for commercial use (my > intention) and does not come very cheap at $1000 per server. unlimited > ditribution rights are $15,000, perhaps worth it in the long run, but at > that price i'm not sure. now if it came with a gui report designer tool > then i'd might bite. If your report writing endeavors don't justify $1000, then you're right, pdflib might not be for you. IANAL, but, look at section 2(b) of the PDFlib license: http://www.pdflib.org/pdflib/aladdin-license.pdf | | (b) | Activities other than copying, distribution and modification of the | Program are not subject to this License and they are outside its | scope. Functional use (running) of the Program is not restricted, | and any output produced through the use of the Program is subject to | this license only if its contents constitute a work based on the | Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). I take this to mean that if I host my report writing application in an ASP model, do not sell the actual code and any programs that use PDFlib are "for my own use only" ... and I only sell the ability to run the reports and sell the resulting PDF document ... it doesn't violate their license agreement. Either way, $500 for their 1-CPU server license for PDFlib is more than reasonable and just gets billed to the client, anyway. The value the client gets out of the reports more than justifies the $500 cost ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)