Licensing

If you want to purchase an iText license, or if have a question about sales, please fill out our our online form or mail to .
You can also mail iText Software Corp at these addresses:
For Europe, Middle-East, Asia, Africa For the US, Canada, South-America, Oceania
iText Software BVBA iText Software Corp.
Adolf Baeyensstraat 121
9040 Sint-Amandsberg (Ghent)
BELGIUM		 2150 Portola Ave., Suite D-239
Livermore, CA 94551
USA
tel: +32 478 96 58 76 tel: +1 (650) 384-0463
fax: +32 92 70 33 75 fax: +1 (650) 412-2486
Skype: itextsoftware
A sales person will inform you about the different products and prices that are available.

Open source

Although iText is a free/open source software (F/OSS) project, giving you a lot of freedom and flexibility regarding the use of the iText software, this doesn’t mean you're free to do anything you want with the product: you have to respect the Affero General Public License.
You can be released from the requirements of the license by purchasing a commercial license from iText Software Corp.
Buying such a license is mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities distributing the iText software inside your product or deploying it on a network without disclosing the source code of your own applications under the AGPL license. These activities include: offering paid services to customers as an ASP, serving PDFs on the fly in the cloud or in a web application, shipping iText with a closed source product.

Why buy a license?

An iText commercial license provides advantages not available with the open-source AGPL license. The specific benefits of a commercial license include:
  • Indemnification in the event of IP (intellectual property) or patent infringement
  • Release from the requirements of the copyleft AGPL license, which include:
    • distribution of all source code including your own product, including if it is a web-based application
    • licensing of your own product under the AGPL license
    • prominent mention and inclusion of the iText copyright and the AGPL license
    • disclosure of modifications
  • Release from the requirement to not change the PDF Producer line in the generated PDF properties
Along with a commercial license, you can also purchase priority technical support

Pricing

iText Commercial licenses are sold much like other commercial software. The type of license and price depends on your application. Therefore, we need additional information to provide pricing. We need to know which of the following type of applications are you looking to build:
1a) iText Commercial Server Licenses
1b) iText Commercial Desktop Licenses
For application within an organizations network to be accessed by employees of the company for generation and manipulation of PDFs. Server licenses are sold by the server or in virtualized environment by the VM. Desktop licenses are by quantities of desktops.
2) iText Commercial SaaS/Hosted Licenses
For a hosted solution within an organization to be accessed by external users. Licensing is based on volumes of documents generated.
3a) iText Commercial Server OEM Licenses
3b) iText Commercial Desktop OEM Licenses
For ISVs who wish to include the iText library within their applications. The license is based on volume categories of licenses to be distributed.
4a) iText for Android: consumer apps
4b) iText for Android: business apps
4c) iText for Android: developer
For Android smart phones and tabletPCs, we have a version of iText with reduced file size and functionality that works on Android.
iText is available as a Java and .NET library.
Please indicate which version you are interested in.
So, we need to know which category you are (1a, 1b, 2 or 3a, 3b) and within that category the additional information required, including which library version, to provide a price to you. Optionally, but it would be helpful, is for you to provide a general description of your application or product.
 

Trademark

iText is a registered Trademark of 1T3XT BVBA.
United States Patent and Trademark Office Reg. No. 3,918,709;
registered Feb. 15, 2011; Int. Cl.: 9;
first use 2-15-2000; in commerce 2-14-2000.
serial No. 77-910,731; filed 1-13-2010.

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