Commit 5c219e991e55b67f4b6472af2398698846c4425f

Authored by Jay Berkenbilt
1 parent 7f5d78c2

no longer embedding pcre and zlib


git-svn-id: svn+q:///qpdf/trunk@891 71b93d88-0707-0410-a8cf-f5a4172ac649
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@@ -12,26 +12,10 @@ warranty. @@ -12,26 +12,10 @@ warranty.
12 Licensing terms of embedded software 12 Licensing terms of embedded software
13 ==================================== 13 ====================================
14 14
15 -Some additional software with additional licensing terms is embedded  
16 -within the qpdf source distribution in "external-libs". This software  
17 -is not actually used by the qpdf build unless the  
18 ---enable-build-external-libs option is passed to ./configure. These  
19 -packages have their own licensing terms, both of which are compatible  
20 -with qpdf's license.  
21 -  
22 -Zlib's license can be read in external-libs/zlib/zlib.h  
23 -  
24 -PCRE's licensing terms can be found in external-libs/pcre/LICENSE.  
25 -PCRE's licensing terms require that we include the following  
26 -information:  
27 -  
28 - Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,  
29 - which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and  
30 - copyright by the University of Cambridge, England.  
31 -  
32 -The sources to PCRE can be independently obtained from  
33 -  
34 - ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/ 15 +QPDF makes use of zlib and pcre for its functionality. These packages
  16 +can be downloaded separately from their own download locations, or
  17 +they can be downloaded in the external-libs area of the qpdf download
  18 +site.
35 19
36 The Rijndael encryption implementation used as the basis for AES 20 The Rijndael encryption implementation used as the basis for AES
37 encryption and decryption support comes from Philip J. Erdelsky's 21 encryption and decryption support comes from Philip J. Erdelsky's