Comment by giancarlostoro

At work we were using I think it was GDPicture? Which is now called Nutrient. They started out with a flat fee, royalty free, then their pricing scheme became more hostile over time (per developer, per application licensing, and I don't recall if they wanted to know how many users - which is crazy unless it's a SaaS). I have friends (former coworkers) and family who ask me for advice on software libraries to use for what, since they know I'm a hyper nerd for that sort of thing, last time a former coworker asked what PDF library to use I told them to avoid Nutrient like the plague. There's wanting to be sustainable and then there's greed.

So yeah I too was looking for permissive licensing. The worst part is now its drastically harder for me to suggest any paid alternatives because we don't know that the alternative wont hike up prices on us. It's a really awful spot to be in.