OCR engine

[Rahul Sundaram]

Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:52:23PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram alleged:
>> Hi
>>
>> Under the Apache 2.0 license. Is anyone interested in packaging this?
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/191251
> 
> Does it link to anything GPL?
> 
> "The Tesseract code is under the Apache 2.0 License, which the Free
> Software Foundation claims is incompatible with the GPL, but the Apache
> Software Foundation does not."
> 

No. It doesnt.

> I assume Fedora would listen to FSF before Apache.
> 
> It also includes non-free software in the tarball?

Not it doesnt.  checkout the code from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr

Rahul