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Use of Unmodified AGPLv3 lib – am I AGPL too?

So, I’ve been reading the AGPL and here is my understanding (not being a lawyer and I’m not trying to look at it through the lens of “Since I WANT it to be ”free”, it therefore is.”. In my case, I am considering the use of itext, an AGPL library, to crack open PDF files and extract the text – that’s it. There will be an internal desktop app and I’ve proposed using my extraction code (which uses the itext dll) on the website to speed up the process for those folks upstairs who’ve been doing it manually for years.

How to fulfill requirements of AGPL on my web service?

We want a simple tool to parse PDF forms, retrieving just the associated field names and user values. PDFSharp would be a good option for us, as it is under the MIT license, but it is a few versions of Acrobat behind – so not going to work. The most popular library (from what my searches have revealed) seems to be iTextSharp. Thus I am introduced to the intricacies of the AGPL.

Mongo Licensing (AGPLv3)

I’m going to include MongoDb(AGPLv3) in my product. My product is SaaS, I don’t install this to client directly. My software is ASP.NET MVC website. But MongoDb’s drivers for .Net is under Apache
My questions are: