readme: update to describe SPDX licensing

This commit is contained in:
James R. Barlow
2022-07-30 17:09:56 -07:00
parent 80ed2117cc
commit 42c983c86c
+4 -8
View File
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ ocrmypdf # it's a scriptable command line program
- Validates input and output files
- Distributes work across all available CPU cores
- Uses [Tesseract OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) engine to recognize more than [100 languages](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata)
- Keeps your private data private.
- Scales properly to handle files with thousands of pages
- Battle-tested on millions of PDFs
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD are supported. Docker images are also availabl
| LinuxBrew | ``brew install ocrmypdf`` |
| FreeBSD | ``pkg install py37-ocrmypdf`` |
| Conda | ``conda install ocrmypdf`` |
| Ubuntu Snap | ``snap install ocrmypdf`` |
For everyone else, [see our documentation](https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html) for installation steps.
@@ -127,15 +129,9 @@ OCRmyPDF would not be the software that it is today without companies and users
## License
The OCRmyPDF software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0
(MPL-2.0). This license permits integration of OCRmyPDF with other code,
included commercial and closed source, but asks you to publish source-level
modifications you make to OCRmyPDF.
The OCRmyPDF software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0). This license permits integration of OCRmyPDF with other code, included commercial and closed source, but asks you to publish source-level modifications you make to OCRmyPDF.
Some components of OCRmyPDF have other licenses, as noted in those files and the
``debian/copyright`` file. Most files in ``misc/`` use the MIT license, and the
documentation and test files are generally licensed under Creative Commons
ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0).
Some components of OCRmyPDF have other licenses, as indicated by standard SPDX license identifiers or the DEP5 copyright and licensing information file. Generally speaking, non-core code is licensed under MIT, and the documentation and test files are licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0).
## Disclaimer