#======================================================================= # ____ ____ _____ _ ____ ___ ____ # | _ \| _ \| ___| _ _ / \ | _ \_ _| |___ \ # | |_) | | | | |_ (_) (_) / _ \ | |_) | | __) | # | __/| |_| | _| _ _ / ___ \| __/| | / __/ # |_| |____/|_| (_) (_) /_/ \_\_| |___| |_____| # # A Perl Module Chain to faciliate the Creation and Modification # of High-Quality "Portable Document Format (PDF)" Files. # # Copyright 1999-2005 Alfred Reibenschuh <areibens@cpan.org>. # #======================================================================= # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # #======================================================================= PATENT CLARIFICATION NOTE Adobe has a number of patents covering technology that is disclosed in the Portable Document Format (PDF) Specification, version 1.3 and later, as documented in PDF Reference and associated Technical Notes (the Specification). Adobe desires to promote the use of PDF for information interchange among diverse products and applications. Accordingly, the following patents are licensed on a royalty-free, non-exclusive basis for the term of each patent and for the sole purpose of developing software that produces, consumes, and interprets PDF files that are compliant with the Specification: U.S. Patent Numbers: 5,634,064 5,737,599 5,781,785 5,819,301 6,028,583 In addition, the following patent is licensed on a royalty-free, non- exclusive basis for its term and for the sole purpose of developing software that produces PDF files that are compliant with the Specification (specifically excluding, however, software that consumes and/or interprets PDF files): U.S. Patent Number: 5,860,074 The above licenses are limited to only those rights required to implement the Specification and no others. That is to say, Adobe grants only those rights in the above patent(s) necessarily practiced to implement the Specification, and does not grant any rights not required to implement the Specification. The licenses do not grant the right to practice any patent covering other technologies, such as implementation techniques that are not explicitly disclosed in the Specification, nor does it allow the use of any patented feature for any purpose other than as set forth in the applicable license grant. Adobe has other patents in various fields, none of which are hereby licensed.