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Re: Adobe open source license -- is this licence free?



> You may not modify the Documentation.

Means the docs are non-free.

> 6. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION. This Agreement is governed by the statutes
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These clauses have been very problematic before. What do others think?

My quick look suggests that the software is Free, the documentation
isn't, but there could be problems with choice of law.

andrew

On 1/26/06, Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de> wrote:
> [Please cc to me and Gilles]
> Hi,
>
> digikam developers would like to use Adobes XMP standard and
> reference implementation to handle image meta data.
>
>         http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/main.html
>
> They would like to make sure that the license is okay with debian
> before they start using it.  If the license if not okay, they have
> to find other solution (or implement their own version from
> the spezification)
>
> I've appended the license used in the source of the
> reference implementation that can be found at:
>
>         http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xmp/sdk/xmp-sdk.zip
>
> the copyright and license notice in the source code looks
> like
>
> // =================================================================================================
> // Copyright 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated
> // All Rights Reserved.
> //
> // NOTICE:  Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file in accordance with the terms
> // of the Adobe license agreement accompanying it.
> // =================================================================================================
>
> Looks okay for me, but we would like to make sure and not
> run into a bad surprise to be rejected from NEW because
> of license issues.
>
> Thx,
> Achim
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> MetadataFrameworkSDK.French.09.13.01_10:44
>
>                                       -- reddy@lion.austin.ibm.com
>
>



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