Comment 41 for bug 197537

poppler-data

This package consists of encoding files for use with poppler. The
encoding files are optional and poppler will automatically read them
if they are present. When installed, the encoding files enables
poppler to correctly render CJK and Cyrrilic properly. While poppler
is licensed under the GPL, these encoding files have different license,
and thus distributed separately.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Qianqian Fang <email address hidden> wrote:
> if we can separate the copyrighted stuff from the raw data, we
> might just get around this.
>
> Can anyone explain which part of the poppler-data are patented?
>
>
> madbiologist wrote:
>> Unfortunately poppler-data is in multiverse since it includes
>> copyrighted (and patent pending) technologies by Adobe.
>>
>> However, this seems like good news in the right direction from Adobe:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/354360/
>>
>>
>
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> [MASTER] Can't read PDF file with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) text
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197537
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