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Asked: 2026-06-07T10:06:12+00:00

I’m not really good with licenses thats why I would like to ask here

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I’m not really good with licenses thats why I would like to ask here about iTextSharp and the option to use it for commercial stuff.

I would like to work on a software to create PDFs and upload the stuff on some DBs and to print them out. For now it should be free, but maybe one day it could become commercial. As I know iTextSharp is not LGLP it’s AGPL, and AGPL is for commercial software not a good solution. Is that right? I cannot use iTextSharp (free) for commercial software?

As I know there is PDFSharp, I heard it’s not that perfect as iText but it should be enough. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The matter is not about you making money or not while using iText. It’s a matter of you using iText in a closed source product. You can make tons of money with your product while using iText for free under the AGPL, as long as you publish your own code under the AGPL too.

    You can later change the license of your product and make it closed source, but you’ll have to use part of the tons of money you made to buy yourself an iText commercial license.

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