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<header>
<title>PDFBox - Redistribution</title>
<meta name="keywords">Java PDF Library, pdfbox</meta>
</header>
<body>
<section>
<title>Redistributing PDFBox</title>
<p>
PDFBox makes use of several open source libraries. Some are just required for building PDFBox, some are required for running PDFBox.
The below table summarizes the licences that are included with PDFBox and when they are required.
</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Product (with license link)</th>
<th>Used for</th>
<th>Required for PDFBox redistribution</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/pdfbox/trunk/licenses/adobe/AFM_License.html" title="Adobe AFM">Adobe AFM</a></td>
<td>Resource files for extracting font encoding. Bundled inside the PDFBox jar file</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"
title="Apache 2.0">Apache Ant</a></td>
<td>Tool for building PDFBox</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.bouncycastle.org/licence.html" title="BouncyCastle">bouncycastle</a></td>
<td>Encryption libraries for encrypting/decrypting PDF documents</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://olex.openlogic.com/licenses/45" title="BSD">FontBox</a></td>
<td>Font Library</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php"
title="zlib/libpng">IKVM</a></td>
<td>Library for .NET version of PDFBox</td>
<td>Only if using .NET version(the DLLs in /bin) of PDFBox</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://junit.sourceforge.net/cpl-v10.html"
title="Common Public License">junit</a></td>
<td>Testing framework used in development</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://olex.openlogic.com/licenses/45" title="BSD">JempBox</a></td>
<td>Library for working with XMP metadata.</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"
title="Apache 2.0">Apache Lucene</a></td>
<td>Text search engine library. PDFBox provides simple integration with Lucene.</td>
<td>Optional, only if using Lucene</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/pdfbox/trunk/licenses/sun-jaicmm" title="Sun JAI">JAI-CMM</a></td>
<td>ICC Color profile resources, bundled in PDFBox jar file</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
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