License Terms

Developer Notice: The Iron PDF EULA Has Moved.

TLDR;

This software isn’t free for commercial usage or deployment . Sorry, we work tirelessly to make the best software we can.

IronPDF is free for the developer:

You can use this software on your local developmet machine, test server and staging server for free.

If You are in a debugging environment - it will all work, like magic. You use this to evaluate our software, and show its value to you boss or clients.

To deploy to a server or machine in production - a watermark will show on your PDFs until you get a license key.

We hope they will undetstand the bennefit of paying a small license fee, as an alternative to the months of development it takes to build a PDF renderer of this quality.

License keys

License keys can be applied to App.Config, Machine.COnfig, Web.Config - or even in your PDFPrintOptions instances.

If you genuinely cant afford a license and are a good cause - please let us know. We ware decent people.

You can learn more, and get licensed http://ironpdf.com/license

If you need to see the full legal text - it can be found here: http://ironpdf.com/license-terms

Full License Text

IRONPDF.COM hereby grants you a non-exclusive license to the IRONPDF Software Library for .Net (the Software). By downloading or using the Software, the Licensee agrees not to utilize the software in a manner which is disparaging to IRONPDF.COM, and not to rent, lease or otherwise transfer rights to the Software. The Licensee agrees that no attempt will be made by the Licensee or associated parties to translate, reverse engineer, modify, decompile, disassemble or distribute the Software. License terms are offered on the following terms, as purchased. If no purchase or insufficient purchase has been made then the Free Trial License terms apply.

1)Free Trial License - Grants the use of the TRIAL VERSION of the software for private evaluation purposes only. The Software should not be published in any internet nor intranet project.

2)Startup License - Grants the use of the Software by ONE software developer. The software may only be deployed within ONE web-application or application, for the INTERNAL use of ONE end user organization.

3)Professional Developer License - Grants the use of the Software by ONE software developer. The software may be deployed within up-to FIVE web-applications or applications, for the INTERNAL use of ONE end user organization. The software may also be used within to to FIVE website subdomains, where PDF generation is not a primary business function.

4)Small Team License - Grants the use of the Software by up to FIVE software developers. The software may be deployed within up-to TEN web-applications or applications, for the INTERNAL use of ONE end user organization. The software may also be used within to to TEN website subdomains, where PDF generation is not a primary business function.

5)Department License - Grants the use of the Software by up to TWELVE software developers. The software may be deployed within up-to TWENTY-FIVE web-applications or applications, for the INTERNAL use of up to TWO end user organizations. The software may also be used within to to TWENTY-FIVE website subdomains, where PDF generation is not a primary business function.

5)Enterprise License - Grants the use of the Software by up to SIXTY software developers. The software may be deployed within up-to ONE HUNDRED web-applications or applications, for the INTERNAL use of up to FIVE end user organizations. The software may also be used within to to ONE HUNDRED website subdomains, , where PDF generation is not a primary business function. For more than SIXTY software developers, multiple licenses should be purchased.

6)OEM Redistribution License - Grants the right to distribute the Software (without royalty) as part of ONE distinct packaged commercial product, provided that your application is not a software development system or tool, nor a PDF gereration application in its self. IRONPDF.COM shall at all times retain ownership of the Software and all subsequent copies.

UPGRADES If a new release of the software is produced within 12 months from the date of purchase then you will be entitled to a free upgrade. This license does not grant you any right to any enhancement or update beyond the initial 12 month period, commencing from the date of purchase.

COPYRIGHT Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the Software shall remain with IRONPDF.COM. The Software is protected by the international copyright laws. Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in and to the content accessed through the Software is the property of the applicable content owner and may be protected by applicable copyright or other law. This License gives you no rights to such content.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT A WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED. IRONPDF.COM AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES. IN NO EVENT WILL IRONPDF.COM OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST REVENUE, PROFIT OR DATA, OR FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF IRONPDF.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

MISCELLANEOUS This software is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility. Licensee represents and warrants that it will not use or redistribute the Software for such purposes.

Acknowledgements

This software builds on the shoulders of giants.

Our code product does make use of some great open source projects - and we are truly sorry not be to as generous nor as intelligent as they are.

It has become blasé industry policy to not give credit where it is due. We appreciate your open source projects - and appreciate even more that you have allowed us to use them in such a way that does not stop the sale or sub licensing of commercial software,

We honestly invest to day it back. To donate to each of these projects - wither in feedback, code, cash or developer love. Where we cant pay it back - we will try and pay it forwards!

Microsoft

We’ll be honest - we didn’t always love Microsoft. But they deserve a special praise on 2 counts.

Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

Quite possible the best piece of IDE software ever written. No more need for JetBrains - everything and enterprise develop needs (including GitHub team workflow is incorporated). now its Free!

Than your Microsoft - you are now officially cool!

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

Open Sourcing of the .Net Framework In October 2014 - Microsoft open sourced the .Net framework. This will (already has) had massive implications for the future of C# as a language - and the common dream that we could have 1 programing framework for any task, on any device on any CPU architecture.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx

The Open-Souring of Roslyn

The open sourcing of Roslyn, the core MSIL compiler makes for exciting future - such that logic from languages such as PHP, Python, Javascript, Ruby, C++, C, C+ and Java may one day be interoperable.

We honestly believe .Net may succeed Java as the future of universal programming.

libwkhtmltox

This LGLP project is incorporated into IronPDF as one of its HTML rendering gambits in an unmodified format. It is great work, and provided inspiration for further development.

IronPDF uses this library fully within the LGPL3 license agreement - and respect the authors great work.

Copyright 2010 wkhtmltopdf authors wkhtmltopdf is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.wkhtmltopdf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. To see the full text of that sublicense license please go to: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

To Cite TLDR Legal

[The GNU Lesser General Public v3] license is mainly applied to libraries. You may copy, distribute and modify the software provided that modifications are described and licensed for free under LGPL. Derivatives works (including modifications or anything statically linked to the library) can only be redistributed under LGPL, but applications that use the library don’t have to be.

Which means that you may use libwkhtmltox and IronPDF in commercial applications without being open source your self.

PDFClown

PDFClown is also an LGLP project, and is incorporated into IronPdf as on of our page-stamping gambits. We love this library - and are awed at how smart Stefano Chizzolini is to simultaneously develop for Java and .Net

Again - here is his attribution citation:

PDFClown Copyright 2008-2012 Stefano Chizzolini. http://www.pdfclown.org Contributors: Stefano Chizzolini (original code developer, http://www.stefanochizzolini.it)
  • This file should be part of the source code distribution of “PDF Clown library” (the Program): see the accompanying README files for more info. This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, either expressed or implied; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this Program (see README files); if not, go to the GNU website (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/). Redistribution and use, with or without modification, are permitted provided that such redistributions retain the above copyright notice, license and disclaimer, along with this list of conditions. To see the full text of that sublicense license please go to: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/*

To Cite TLDR Legal:

This license is mainly applied to libraries. You may copy, distribute and modify the software provided that modifications are described and licensed for free under LGPL. Derivatives works (including modifications or anything statically linked to the library) can only be redistributed under LGPL, but applications that use the library don’t have to be.

Which means that you may use PDFClown and IronPDF in commercial applications without being open source your self.

Special Thanks

Thanks should also go to Slava Kolobaev and his work on the Pechkin PDF Interop for C# Project.

We were inspired by his clean C# architecture - and although out library does not use conventional Interop - he deserves a big thanks for sharing his design under CC Attribution license.

We wish we were as good at API design as you are!

Adobe

And Finally - Thank you adobe for opening up the PDF standard. You have proven that openness in proprietary software is financially viable.

Read about the Adobe Acrobat PDF open standard: https://acrobat.adobe.com/sea/en/products/about-adobe-pdf.html