[reportlab-users] pdf417 barcodes

[Carl Karsten]

Andy Robinson wrote:

> 2008/12/31 Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>:

>> As the person who did most of the work/extensions after Ty Sarna contributed

>> the original work I can tell you we have not implemented 417. I did look at

>> the sf project, but the license is GPL and we could not use it directly as

>> our license is more liberal. I know this thing can produce postscript so it

>> is potentially usable with a translation layer.



for the record,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417encode/ is LGPL
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417.lib is LGPL or MPL 1.1

http://www.reportlab.org/devfaq.html is BSD

I have no idea what MPL is - does it play nice with BSD?

Could the authors release under BSD?



> 

> 

> Also, we only have a one-dimensional barcode reader.  From ReportLab's

> end, we'd be happy to implement this (and DataMatrix too) if a

> customer is willing to pay the time costs, which are probably a couple

> of man-weeks.  Various enterprise customers have enquired in the past

> but nobody has committed.  Let us know if your employers need this

> badly enough ;-)


Well, my employer is PyCon - last year we got inquiries if the attendee name 
tags could be scanned.   scanner rental is around $300, I will be surprised if 
we get 10 rentals.  so even if we mark up the rental 100%, that only gives us 3k 
to work with.  Any interest in a booth at PyCon?

Carl K