Somewhere around version 0.4.0 the nonfree adobe-ps license was replaced by BSD. I can't find any upstream changelog, but it is mentioned in the Debian changelog at at http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/poppler-data/poppler-data_0.4.3-1/changelog . Reproducible: Always
--- poppler-data-0.2.1/work/poppler-data-0.2.1/COPYING 2008-09-30 22:59:01.000000000 +0200 +++ poppler-data-0.4.0/work/poppler-data-0.4.0/COPYING 2009-12-09 22:45:01.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,20 +1,9 @@ -The various data files installed by the poppler-data package carries -this license: +The cMap data files installed by the poppler-data package are +under the COPYING.adobe license - Copyright 1990-1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated. - All Rights Reserved. - - Patents Pending - - NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe - Systems Incorporated. - - Permission is granted for redistribution of this file provided - this copyright notice is maintained intact and that the contents - of this file are not altered in any way from its original form. - - PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems - Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. +The cidToUnicode, nameToUnicode and unicodeMap data files +installed by the poppler-data package are Copyright Glyph & Cog, LLC +and are under the COPYING.gpl2 license The Makefile is licensed under the MIT license: poppler-data-0.4.0/work/poppler-data-0.4.0/COPYING.adobe appears to be an `as-is' type license.
(In reply to comment #1) > poppler-data-0.4.0/work/poppler-data-0.4.0/COPYING.adobe appears to be an > `as-is' type license. > It differs from /usr/portage/licenses/BSD by one word, excluding filling in the placeholders like <ORGANIZATION> and formatting changes. It agrees exactly with the OSI version of the BSD license, up to placeholders and formatting.
+ 23 Sep 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + poppler-data-0.4.3.ebuild: + Fix license from adobe-ps to BSD wrt #335164 by William Throwe.
