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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-3571:
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According to the file itself that's not correct
{quote}
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/ProfilePackages/

The zlib/libpng License

Copyright (c) 2007-2010, basICColor GmbH

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In 
no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use 
of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including 
commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to 
the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim 
that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, 
and acknowlegement in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not 
required.

2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be 
misrepresented as being the original software.

3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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And that's a [cat-a license|http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved#category-a]

Maybe you are referring to a newer version of that file?

> sRGB Color Space Profile is subject to 3rd party copyright
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3571
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3571
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.3
>            Reporter: gil cattaneo
>
> Hi
> The file /examples/src/main/resources/org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/sRGB 
> Color Space Profile.icm
> The license: 
> /examples/src/main/resources/org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/sRGB Color 
> Space Profile.icm.LICENSE.txt
> contains the following:
>  "...permission to use, copy and distribute this file for any purpose is
>  hereby granted without fee, provided that the file is not changed
>  including the HP copyright notice tag, ... "
> The license says: "provided that the file is not changed"
> It does not respect the criteria "The license must meet the Open Source 
> Definition."
> The OSD [1] says:
> "3. Derived Works
> The license must allow modifications"
> [1] http://www.opensource.org/osd.html
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#no-modification



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