PDFcreator and open source software for business environment?

[holden j caufield]

We got users who like to convert stuff to pdf. Can we install this in a business environment? Where are the terms of use. And if we need to pay, where and how do we pay?

 

[StormSide]

* And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

How hard is it to search??? Took me 1 min ..........................

 

[Ken g6]

The sourceforge page (Details tab) says this program is licensed under the GPL. This means, in terms of licensing and copyrights, the program is free to use. You need pay no one for the license, and need do nothing else unless you redistribute it. If you redistribute it, you basically have to include the license and give others the same rights.

Adobe holds some software patents on the PDF format; but apparently licenses them for free. What might happen if they stopped doing that I'm not sure. I'm not sure of the GPL license version, but that would probably affect what could happen.

And, of course, I am not a lawyer, and this is not official legal advice.

 

[Peetoeng]

I am looking for a free pdf writer/printer that preserves underlying URL (link still clickable). I just tried PDFCreator, it it did not preserve URL. Anyone knows a pdf writer that does?