Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adobe has patents which it claims apply to PDF and has licensed them only > for the purpose of creating compatible implementations. > > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/legalnotices.jsp > > If you modified an application which implements PDF so that it was > incompatible with Adobe's specifications, you might be outside the > scope of Adobe's patent license grant.
That's interesting to know - though I don't intend to read the patents themselves. Presumably you are not suggesting that programs that manipulate PDF files are non-free just because you can infringe a US patent by modifying them. Are you suggesting we should avoid using PDFs? By the way, is ReportLab (a python toolkit for generating PDFs) free software? Their website seems not to be working at present.
