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Am 23.08.2017 um 17:23 schrieb Jörg Henne:
Am 19.08.2017 um 17:07 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:
Please provide the following paperwork:
- software-grant, see [1]
- an iCLA for all potential committers, which aren't apache committers yet,
see [2]
- a CCLA if necessary, see [3]
CCLA: done. Others: pending.
Thanks, once the SGA is on file I start with filing the ip-clearance template
Please create a JIRA ticket about adding your jbig2 plugin to PDFBox and
attach a source tarball/zip and a SHA checksum to it, see PDFBOX-1056 which
dealt with the integration of the PDF/A-validator some years ago.
Done.
One more heads up regarding IP vetting which you should be aware of: the patent
situation surrounding JBIG2 is/was kind of muddy:
- all of the U.S. patents mentioned in Annex I of the specification have been
expired be now
- as far as I can tell, none of the terms have been re-adjusted (I checked with
the USPTO)
- both Japanese patens should be expired, but I haven't checked for extensions
- there may be other patens out there asserted after the completion of the
standard, which I don't know about
In any case it should be clear that the transfer of the plugin source code to
PDFBox does not include any rights to any of those or other patents!
The SGA grants a license for the code and any patents which are included. As
those patents aren't included, everything should be ok.
Jörg
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