Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 236310
pdftk contains Sun confidential code from itext
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:02 EST
Description of problem: The following files in the pdftk tarball: com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PACommand.java com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAContext.java com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAEngine.java com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAPencil.java com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAToken.java com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PainterException.java (which originate in itext) contain code with the following copyright header: /* * Copyright 1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc., * 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A. * All rights reserved. * * This software is the confidential and proprietary information * of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You * shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use * it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement * you entered into with Sun. */ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pdftk-1.41-3.fc6 Additional info: See also Bug 236309 against itext.
Correction: The files are all in the java_libs subdirectory, i.e.: java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PACommand.java java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAContext.java java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAEngine.java java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAPencil.java java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PAToken.java java_libs/com/lowagie/text/pdf/codec/postscript/PainterException.java
Have notified upstream about this problem.
The iText package of Fedora contains the same files.
I know, see Bug 236309. :-)
Package will going into the EOL process, becouse iText was remove caused by licensing issues and pdftk contains a bundled copy of iText.