[jira] Updated: (LEGAL-36) CMaps for PDF CJK Fonts

["Jukka Zitting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-36?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jukka Zitting updated LEGAL-36:
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    Attachment: LEGAL-36.patch

Attached a proposed patch that adds a new section about this to the Previously Asked Question page. I've tried to summarize the apparent consensus, but feel free to propose edits if I'm missing or misrepresenting something.

Here's a plain text copy of the proposed new section:

  * How should licenses that prevent modification be handled?

    There are licenses that give broad rights for redistribution of
    /unmodified/ copies. Such licenses are not open source, but they
    do satisfy the second and third guiding principles above.

    Apache projects must not include material under such licenses in
    version control or in released source packages. It is however acceptable
    for a build process to automatically download such dependencies and
    include them in the resulting binaries. Such use makes it clear that
    these dependencies are not a part of the open source code of the project.

    Software and other material under the following licenses may be used
    as described above:

        * CMaps for PDF CJK Fonts (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font/#pcfi)


> CMaps for PDF CJK Fonts
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-36
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-36
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Jukka Zitting
>         Attachments: LEGAL-36.patch
>
>
> The incubating Apache PDFBox project embeds CMap files (character code mappings) for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts in PDF documents.  The files are available from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font/#pcfi and come with license headers like this:
>     Copyright 1990-2001 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
>     All Rights Reserved.
>     Patents Pending
>     NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property
>     of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
>     Permission is granted for redistribution of this file
>     provided this copyright notice is maintained intact and
>     that the contents of this file are not altered in any
>     way from its original form.
>     PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of
>     Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in
>     certain jurisdictions.
> The license grants rights to redistribute the files, but does not allow any modifications. Is it OK for Apache PDFBox to redistribute these files unmodified?
> Having these files included in PDFBox is highly convenient as they allow PDFBox to work OOTB with PDF documents that contain CJK fonts. Also, I can't think of cases where a user would want to modify the CMap files.

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