Any plans of upgrading Pentaho with upgraded version of itext jar (i.e., v5.1 or above)

[ravikant82]

As part of our application deliverable, Pentaho (Open Source) is used for creating PRPT reports and Pentaho internally uses itext-2.1.7.jar library as part of their package for PDF export.

Recently, we discovered that itext is now no longer a free library and should be used under appropriate license. Since we don’t have any license with Pentaho (although we had the subscription with Pentaho few years back), looks like we cannot use it for commercial purpose anymore now.

We found details on the following links that say that now we should NOT use itext version prior to v5.1 for commercial purpose :
https://ind01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20150424192831%2Fhttp%3A%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F25696851%2Fcan-itext-2-1-7-or-earlier-can-be-used-commercially%23%3A~%3Atext%3D7%2520or%2520earlier%2520can%2520be%2520used%2520commercially%253F%2520%255Bclosed%255D%26text%3DHowever%252C%2520if%2520we%2520look%2520at%2Cupgraded%2520licence)%2520or%2520iText%25202.1&data=04%7C01%7CRavikant.Shukla%40crisil.com%7Cb383f64a573b45a3f29608d9d414697e%7C4d8b04bf7a7c48a0b6e338da5008297e%7C0%7C0%7C637774006426867224%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=lqHS2d74oU1sj8wQb6%2FzN3pxHVambQNj9ihoEQY%2B3%2Bg%3D&reserved=0

We thought of upgrading Pentaho to latest version 9.1 but as per our finding in the below link, the third party JARs of Pentaho9.1 still has itext2.1.7.jar file :
https://help.hitachivantara.com/Documentation/Pentaho/9.1/Developer_center/Source_code_links

If we directly plan to replace existing itext2.1.7 with version above 5.1, there is a probability that the existing functionality of Export PDF might break.

Please assist us.

[richard-willdooit]

Unfortunately, we have 2 issues. One is that we are so busy internally, that we have next to no resources for this project at the moment. The second is that we have no real java knowledge in house and are reliant on external resources to sort out issues relating to jar files, and how to upgrade.

I am not sure we can help you, certainly not just now.