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/
>
>   
here are some discussions I found related to the cmap data
in the poppler-data package:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-36
http://markmail.org/message/itzg3ppfw2phbttm

the confusing bit is the "patent pending" in the
adobe license file.

searching all adobe's CJK patents, nothing seemed
related to the cmap data:
http://www.google.com/patents?q=adobe+cjk

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