Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Tika project gets around this by not having any binary distribution; >> so they never distribute (themselves) these parts. >> > > See [1] for the LICENSE and NOTICE files that cover the full set of > depencencies. > > Tika currently does not ship a binary that embeds those dependencies > because of some unresolved PDFBox licensing issues. These are fixed in > the PDFBox 0.8.0-incubating release that's just become available on > [2] and [3]. > > For now (until Tika 0.5 is released) you can work around the PDFBox > issue by explicitly excluding the PDFBox dependency. > Good idea, I'll do this. > >> I believe we also need to get an Export 5D002 Registration for the Tika >> Annotator, and also for the Sandbox Distribution which includes it. >> > > The export notification for Tika is there for the PDF decryption > support. If you exclude the PDFBox dependency or avoid configuring > Tika to activate the decryption feature, then you won't be using that > functionality and by my current understanding you don't need to do the > export control registration. > > Seems right to me. So we won't pursue export control registration at this time for the Sandbox distribution.
Thanks for your very helpful feedback - much appreciated! -Marshall > [1] > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/tika/tags/0.4/tika-app/src/main/resources/META-INF/ > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/download.html > [3] http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfbox/0.8.0-incubator/ > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > >
