> Not sure that this is really the case. Which part?
-- John On 9 Feb 2014, at 12:11, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Not sure that this is really the case. > > On Feb 9, 2014, at 11:14 AM, John Hewson wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> It seems that we have some Sun Microsystems code in PDFBox, namely >> TIFFFaxDecoder: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/filter/TIFFFaxDecoder.java?view=markup >> which is clearly from: >> https://github.com/geosolutions-it/imageio-ext/blob/master/plugin/tiff/src/main/java/it/geosolutions/imageioimpl/plugins/tiff/TIFFFaxDecompressor.java >> (note: it was easier to link to image-io-ext but the original file may well >> be from plain old image-io) >> >> It seems that the origin of this code is Apache XML Graphics Commons: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/commons/trunk/src/java/org/apache/xmlgraphics/image/codec/tiff/TIFFFaxDecoder.java?view=markup >> (note the missing Sun copyright) > > The initial Apache checkin was in 2001[1] while the Sun copyright is 2005. > Deeper analysis would be required before your conclusion is proven. > > It could as easily be said that the Sun version derived from the XML Graphics > version, or that they both derived from the same source. > >> >> The good news is that the Image IO code is under the BSD license, so it >> shouldn’t be >> impossible to resolve this, but what should we do? > > What is this BSD version and what is its history? > > These all implement an CCITT and ANSI standard from the 1950's most recently > enhanced in 1992. [2] ANSI standards are public domain. > > Regards, > Dave > > PS. INAL. > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/commons/trunk/src/java/org/apache/xmlgraphics/image/codec/tiff/TIFFFaxDecoder.java?revision=199900&view=markup > > [2] http://www.fileformat.info/mirror/egff/ch09_05.htm >
