From 42c983c86ce18f4b432785330cf9f691367cffca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James R. Barlow" Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:09:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] readme: update to describe SPDX licensing --- README.md | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2c181a03..6d7a0a35 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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