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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-245:
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JCHM seems to be under the CDDL license, so we're fine to use the Jar as a
runtime dependency as per http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
However, before we can use it, we'll need to get the jar into maven central.
One problem would appear to be the lack of response from the authors, as seen
from the lack of recent commits, and the problems you've had with getting your
bug fixes applied
Personally, I'd suggest you try a bit more to get hold of the original authors
- try emails, sourceforge trackers etc. If you can get in touch, hopefully
they'll make you a maintainer. That would allow you to apply patches, and
request the maven central upload
Otherwise, I guess the only option is for you to fork the project, probably on
sourceforge (the license doesn't permit it to be hosted by apache). You can
apply the patches to your fork, and have it uploaded into maven central.
Once a patched version is in maven, we can add the dependency to Tika, and
apply your parser patch!
> Support of CHM Format
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>
> Key: TIKA-245
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-245
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: parser
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Karl Heinz Marbaise
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: TIKA-245.tikhonov.20103107.patch.txt
>
>
> It might be a good idea to support the CHM File format of Windows. Some
> information about
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help#Extracting_to_HTML.
> The CHM format contains HTML files which can be parsed by Tika. So the "only"
> problem is to extract the data from the CHM file.
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