Hi, On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Aaron Kaplan <lists2...@aaronkaplan.info> wrote: > Why are glyphlist.txt and other Adobe-copyrighted files not included in the > source? I assumed it was because copyright precluded their redistribution, > but now but now I see that they're included in the PDFBox binary jar.
The Adobe license permits redistribution but not modification. See the LICENSE.txt file for the details. > Why is it ok to redistribute them in a jar but not ok to put them in the > source repository? See LEGAL-36 [1] for the discussion we had with the Apache legal team about how to handle resources that may be redistributed but not modified. The consensus was that there is no problem redistributing such material, but that we should try to make it clear that these files are not open source. The easiest way to do that is to simply avoid including them in the source release. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-36 BR, Jukka Zitting
