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#   |  __/| |_| |  _|    _   _   / ___ \|  __/| |   / __/
#   |_|   |____/|_|     (_) (_) /_/   \_\_|  |___| |_____|
#
#   A Perl Module Chain to faciliate the Creation and Modification
#   of High-Quality "Portable Document Format (PDF)" Files.
#
#   Copyright 1999-2003 Alfred Reibenschuh <areibens@cpan.org>.
#
#=======================================================================
#
#   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
#   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
#   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
#   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
#   Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
#   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
#   License along with this library; if not, write to the
#   Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
#   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#
#=======================================================================


PATENT CLARIFICATION NOTE

Adobe has a number of patents covering technology that is disclosed
in the Portable Document Format (PDF) Specification, version 1.3 and
later, as documented in PDF Reference and associated Technical Notes
(the Specification). Adobe desires to promote the use of PDF for
information interchange among diverse products and applications.

Accordingly, the following patents are licensed on a royalty-free,
non-exclusive basis for the term of each patent and for the sole
purpose of developing software that produces, consumes, and
interprets PDF files that are compliant with the Specification:

U.S. Patent Numbers:

    5,634,064
        5,737,599
        5,781,785
        5,819,301
        6,028,583

In addition, the following patent is licensed on a royalty-free, non-
exclusive basis for its term and for the sole purpose of developing
software that produces PDF files that are compliant with the
Specification (specifically excluding, however, software that
consumes and/or interprets PDF files):

U.S. Patent Number:

    5,860,074

The above licenses are limited to only those rights required to
implement the Specification and no others. That is to say, Adobe
grants only those rights in the above patent(s) necessarily practiced
to implement the Specification, and does not grant any rights not
required to implement the Specification. The licenses do not grant
the right to practice any patent covering other technologies, such as
implementation techniques that are not explicitly disclosed in the
Specification, nor does it allow the use of any patented feature for
any purpose other than as set forth in the applicable license grant.
Adobe has other patents in various fields, none of which are hereby
licensed.

