Re: Fwd: Help for users@pdfbox.apache.org

[Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>]

Hi,

Am 28.06.11 10:50, schrieb Jeroen Vuurens:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure where to post my question, so please redirect if this is
> not the right channel.
>
> Let me start out by saying I think it's a great service that you provide
> a very cool open source pdf library!
>
> I've looked into using pdfbox to make a little tool to get specific
> texts (for academic use) out of pdf documents. It seems I can make this
> work using pdfbox, although I did have to make a minor change to one of
> the pdfbox utility modules to make it work. I plan to make this tool
If it is something you want to share with us, feel free to contribute a 
patch.

> into a single executable that operates on a directory filled with pdf's.
> In no means am I pursuing any commercial goals, official software
> edition, or so, it's just a little convenient utility to give away to
> fellow scientists who might be interested.
>
> I'm not very familiar with all the licenses, but am wondering if it is
> ok to share this executable (containing pdfbox) to users who also like
> to use it? Or what kind of restrictions apply?
You are free to use it, whatever you do. I guess the Apache License [1] 
isn't that complicated and quite easy to understand. ;-)

BR
Andreas Lehmkühler

[1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0