On Feb 12, 2008 2:31 PM, Antoni Myłka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Tika! > Hello Aperture! > > We (the Aperture project) have recently updated the pdfbox to the > current trunk version. It seems that they've introduced a new dependency > on the Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI). The problem is that JAI imposes > certain constraints on redistribution. They are summarized here: > > <http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/1_1_3/DISTRIBUTIONREADME-jai.txt> > > I don't understand it and I thought it might be relevant to both > communities. How do you interpret this? Rumour has it that pdfbox is to > join ASF, which has strict legal policies.
Yes PDFBox has just been accepted as an Incubator project at the ASF: http://incubator.markmail.org/message/nftnj3jqaoyamzlm One of the tasks of a project incubating at Apache is that licensing issues are sorted out before a project can "graduate" from the incubator to become a fully-fledged ASF project Niall > I personally don't like the > idea of agreeing to defend Sun against anything. > > I've posted it on the pdfbox forum. > > <http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4773531> > > I guess the pdfbox forum might be the best place to continue this > discussion. > > All kinds of comments welcome. > > Antoni Mylka > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
