Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#

3 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by ingve

3 Comments

actionfromafar

7 hours ago

I my eyes, PdfSharpCore¹ is now the "canonical" version of pdfcore.

IMHO the list is incomplete without it.

1: https://github.com/ststeiger/PdfSharpCore

eXpl0it3r

6 hours ago

It seems the PDFSharp rabbit hole goes even deeper than I've realized!

Latest MigraDoc & PDFSharp seem to have been updated and ported to .NET 6 after a lot of the forks happened, so it was unclear to me whether there's merits in looking at other, mostly abandoned forks.

I might add PdfSharpCore, though the use of SixLabors.ImageSharp and SixLabors.Fonts leads to a disqualification from the "quest", given their custom split license [1]

Edit: Actually, the license seems to turn into an Apache 2.0 license, when used with an open source licensed project and also as transitive dependency. Certainly a confusing license.

[1] https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/main/LICENSE