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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon PaddlePaddle

LICENSE issue

Open mahaling opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Your code is licensed under Apache 2.0 which offers the most liberal license letting people use your software for even commercial purposes. But you have PyMuPDF as one of your requirements. This software comes under AGPL-3.0 which means your software also has to be released under AGPL. Can someone clarify if this is a right understanding?.

mahaling avatar Feb 27 '24 15:02 mahaling

related: #8873

jzhang533 avatar Feb 28 '24 05:02 jzhang533

cc: @michaelowenliu @mahongweichina

jzhang533 avatar Feb 28 '24 05:02 jzhang533

I am not an OSS legal expert, but I do think we'd better follow instructions on this page : APACHE LICENSE V2.0 AND GPL COMPATIBILITY. which means, we should make PyMuPDF optional in PaddleOCR project.

If anyone in the community wants to help, please create a PR and assign @jzhang533 and @tink2123 as reviewers.

jzhang533 avatar Feb 28 '24 07:02 jzhang533

Related: https://snyk.io/advisor/python/paddleocr Snyks shows several severe license risks from dependencies.

keskival avatar May 15 '24 09:05 keskival