Hi, In 2007, someone uploaded my IP to your bug tracker in https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41357 - that person did not have license to use my IP, and therefore you also do not. You continue to host that file in your svn: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/test-data/slideshow/PictureLengthZero.ppt- please remove it from your svn history.
I would also point out that someone sending you a file to help you solve a bug does not automatically or implicitly grant the legal right to use the file for any other purpose, store, and certainly not republish the file. You are likely illegally republishing other files as part of the test directory in your svn and I humbly suggest that your only course of action is to remove those files that you do not explicitly know that you are licensed to redistribute. Much more collegially, that PPT was an export from OpenOffice.org (ie, not created by MS Powerpoint) and therefore may not be an appropriate test file for your project. I'm sorry if this has caused you any consternation in designing or maintaining your project. Thanks for your contributions to open source software - while I don't use POI I still have great respect for your work. Thanks, Chris Demwell
