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Jörg Henne commented on PDFBOX-3906:
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I've contacted Dave Tompkins of the origin project at the University of
British Columbia. And luckily he answered very fast, see my attached mail and
his answer.
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Cool! I wonder why I didn't come up with that. What is interesting is his hint
that those files may exercise code paths that may not be that common but that
are nevertheless out there.
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The content of those files should by covered by fair use. Especially the amb*
files have a very bad resolution so that nobody would really use them for their
content.
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But is fair use good enough for the ASF?
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We must not include any stuff which has a more restrictive license than the
apache license. It wouldn't change anything to get a license which allows the
commercial usage with a particular ASF project only.
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That's why I figured. So, try the exemption?
> Contributing the JBig2 ImageIO Plugin to PDFBox
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-3906
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3906
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Jörg Henne
> Attachments: jbig2-imageio.tgz, Re_JBIG2bitstreamTestfiles.eml
>
>
> Levigo solutions GmbH donates the Java ImageIO-Plugin for the JBIG2 to the
> PDFBox project. The Plugin is currently hosted at
> https://github.com/levigo/jbig2-imageio and has already been prepared for
> integration.
> The steps completed so far are:
> - IP vetting for contributions by non-levigo developers
> - Merging/application of all pending pull requests
> - Update of the project structure in anticipation of the new home:
> -- package names
> -- license headers
> -- license files
> -- README.md
> -- release notes
> -- Maven project information
> A tgz containing the source code has been attached:
> - It is based on commit 483aab3eb9bbc02f6995a637155adf6b922ed0c0
> (https://github.com/levigo/jbig2-imageio/commit/483aab3eb9bbc02f6995a637155adf6b922ed0c0).
>
> - Its SHA1 is 0e07111b4bf7f5a51bf0fdd903f02f082ea3bf65
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