Bug#1053672: Apple copyright notices in test .xlsx files

Rebecca N. Palmer rebecca_palmer at zoho.com
Sun Oct 8 15:04:39 BST 2023


Source: openpyxl
Version: 3.0.9-2
Severity: serious

licensecheck -r --copyright . on openpyxl finds these:

./openpyxl/formatting/tests/data/conditional-formatting.xlsx: UNKNOWN
   [Copyright: 2007 Apple Inc.]
./openpyxl/reader/tests/data/complex-styles.xlsx: UNKNOWN
   [Copyright: 2007 Apple Inc.]

If opened in 'less' these files do contain the text "Copyright 2007 
Apple Inc., all rights reserved.", marked as 'etext'.

However, if opened in LibreOffice, no _obvious_ command displays this 
text.  File > Properties instead displays creation and modification 
dates/authors that match the openpyxl upstream commit dates/authors 
(2012-4), which suggests that these are *not* straightforward copies of 
Apple-owned example files.

Their actual contents are mostly formatting, i.e. they look like 
something created specifically to be a test case for reading formatting, 
or possibly a documentation example for formatting but the above makes 
that less likely, not something copied from real-world use.

Given this, why is that copyright notice there, and what does it imply 
that we should do?  (E.g. does Apple Numbers automatically copy 
Apple-owned items (e.g. fonts) into files it creates?  If so, is there a 
way to remove these items to get a Free file?)



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