Network PDF Server YAFPC-Appliance
YAFPC-Appliance is a browser based management frontend for the PDF composer/printer/Mailer YAFPC. It comes with the General-Purpose Appliance System on a bootable CD in combination with an easy to use installation script. Once installed, any PC booted from this CD image can act as a PDF print server that provides an unlimited number of network shared virtual PDF printers. The system requirements are low; any older PC can be used. System configuration can be done via a Web browser from any workstation in the network. Virtual shared printers can be configured to apply letterheads, watermarks, cover pages, and appendixes to all printed documents. After printing, a document is sent to its owner by mail, can be accessed in a shared folder on the server, or can be stored in a shared network folder on some other machine.
Recent releases
- 26 May 2009 14:25
Changes: In addition to creating PDF files, the system can now create JPG files from the printed document as one JPG image per page.
- 28 Apr 2009 13:28
Changes: The appliance can now be configured to make use of SMTP server authentication when sending documents to the user by email.
- 12 Aug 2008 17:40
Changes: New options for naming files of created documents: a fixed "filename prefix" can be applied to all filenames, and a "filename filter" based on "sed" and "awk" scripts can be used to form filenames from document titles in the "Edit Printer" dialog.
- 16 May 2008 13:28
Changes: New dynamic memory management for the Java virtual machine avoids "out of memory" errors while printing very large documents when running on machines with 512MB physical memory or more.
- 29 Jan 2008 08:21
Changes: A system crash which occurred when accessed by a large number of users (over 100) at the same time was fixed.
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Recent commentsRe: Most likely violates GPL
After consulting a couple of experts I'm shure the Appliance has to be seen as "mere aggregation" of a shareware component with GPL'ed software corresponding to ยง2 of the GPL. To make this more clear I have made some changes to the current version 3.00: My own GPL'ed component YAFPC is not compiled into the appliance package any more; The preinstallation of the appliance was replaced by an installation script, thus the user must conform the installation first; And all GPL'ed software have been made public (incl. sources) on a new project homepage as "General-Purpose Appliance System" to be useable for other software appliances too.
Hope that nobody bothers me again with accusations about violating other licenses.
Re: Most likely violates GPL
>
> % Contains GPL software (e.g. a
> complete
> % GNU/Linux system, SAMBA, ...), but
> has
> % not a single mention on the GPL on
> it's
> % website, and tells me, Linux et. al.
> is
> % "freeware" (most likely
> this
> % is a breach of the GPL because it
> % mislabels the license.) ...
> %
> % Autor is well informed about the GPL,
> as
> % he uses it in his other program
> % (YAFPC).
> %
> % Relevant project administrators have
> % been informed.
>
>
> Perhaps they need to be informed again.
> :( This page
> http://www.n-view.net/Appliance/main.php,
> at
> least mentions the GPL now, but the GPL
> prevents
> redistribution non-free software with
> GPL-licensed
> software. If this guy doesn't stop
> soon, he may be hearing
> from lawyers...
I don't agree to this. But I'm not ready to take the risk of getting bothered by bloodthirsty lawers. Therefore the distribution of the program has been stopped and the project homepage has gone offline.
I'll try to get support from people who have better knowledge about GPL and can give me some advice about how I can continue the project. Maybe the project comes back after some clarifications.
Re: Most likely violates GPL
> Contains GPL software (e.g. a complete
> GNU/Linux system, SAMBA, ...), but has
> not a single mention on the GPL on it's
> website, and tells me, Linux et. al. is
> "freeware" (most likely this
> is a breach of the GPL because it
> mislabels the license.) ...
>
> Autor is well informed about the GPL, as
> he uses it in his other program
> (YAFPC).
>
> Relevant project administrators have
> been informed.
Perhaps they need to be informed again. :( This page
http://www.n-view.net/Appliance/main.php, at
least mentions the GPL now, but the GPL prevents
redistribution non-free software with GPL-licensed
software. If this guy doesn't stop soon, he may be hearing
from lawyers...
Most likely violates GPL
Contains GPL software (e.g. a complete GNU/Linux system, SAMBA, ...), but has not a single mention on the GPL on it's website, and tells me, Linux et. al. is "freeware" (most likely this is a breach of the GPL because it mislabels the license.) ...
Autor is well informed about the GPL, as he uses it in his other program (YAFPC).
Relevant project administrators have been informed.