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Reviews for pdfio

All reviews for this package from team members (across all versions).

Reviewer Version Allocated Started Status Comment
siretart 1.5.1+dfsg-1 9 days ago 9 days ago accepted debian/copyright states that the project was licensed under Apache 2.0 with an exception to allow linking to GPL code. This statement can be found in the upstream sources in the file NOTICE. That's probably okay, but not very obvious to see. Upstream does make another clarification in README.md: Legal Stuff PDFio is Copyright © 2021-2025 by Michael R Sweet. This software is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 with an (optional) exception to allow linking against GPL2/LGPL2 software. See the files "LICENSE" and "NOTICE" for more information. The files in pdfio.xcodeproj/* are probably under the same license as the rest, but again, not exactly obvious. I would drop those files because they are not needed to build and ask upstream to clarify licensing terms

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