Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adobe has patents which it claims apply to PDF and has licensed them only > for the purpose of creating compatible implementations. > > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/legalnotices.jsp > > If you modified an application which implements PDF so that it was > incompatible with Adobe's specifications, you might be outside the > scope of Adobe's patent license grant.
It should be noted that while this is unpleasant, it doesn't impact the free-software nature of xpdf, as long as the license doesn't attempt to incorporate the patent restrictions into itself.
