APACHE POI NOTICE
QR Decoder: Scan & PDF Tools
Effective Date: October 27, 2026
Last Updated: October 27, 2026
1. ABOUT THIS NOTICE
This notice is part of the third-party notices for QR Decoder: Scan & PDF Tools (the “App”), published by Jesus Afkerian, an individual operating under the AFKERIAN INTERACTIVE brand (“AFKERIAN INTERACTIVE,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). It covers Apache POI and Apache XMLBeans, which the App uses to open, edit and save Word documents and spreadsheets.
2. COMPONENTS
- Apache POI: org.apache.poi:poi, org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml and org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml-full, version 6.0.0, from The Apache Software Foundation (https://poi.apache.org).
- Apache XMLBeans: org.apache.xmlbeans:xmlbeans, version 5.4.1, from The Apache Software Foundation (https://xmlbeans.apache.org), used by Apache POI.
- SparseBitSet: com.zaxxer:SparseBitSet, version 1.3, used by Apache POI. It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and has no NOTICE file.
Apache POI also uses curvesapi (see CURVESAPI_LICENSE.txt) and several Apache Commons libraries (see APACHE_COMMONS_NOTICE.txt).
Version 1.3.0 (build 8) of the App included Apache POI 5.5.1 (poi, poi-ooxml and poi-ooxml-lite) and Apache XMLBeans 5.3.0 instead of the versions above.
3. LICENSE
These components are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The full text is in LICENSE_APACHE_2_0.txt and at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Sections 4 to 6 reproduce the NOTICE files and the additional license terms distributed with them.
4. APACHE POI NOTICE (as distributed in poi, poi-ooxml and poi-ooxml-full 6.0.0)
Apache POI
Copyright 2003-2026 The Apache Software Foundation
This product includes software developed at
The Apache Software Foundation (https://www.apache.org/).
This product contains parts that were originally based on software from BEA.
Copyright (c) 2000-2003, BEA Systems, (dead link),
which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2008.
Note: The ASF Secretary has on hand a Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from
BEA Systems, Inc. dated 9 Sep 2003 for XMLBeans signed by their EVP/CFO.
This product contains W3C XML Schema documents. Copyright 2001-2003 (c)
World Wide Web Consortium (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European
Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University)
This product contains the chunks_parse_cmds.tbl file from the vsdump program.
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Valek Filippov (frob@df.ru)
This product contains parts of the eID Applet project
and .
Copyright (c) 2009-2018
FedICT (federal ICT department of Belgium), e-Contract.be BVBA (https://www.e-contract.be),
Bart Hanssens from FedICT
ExceptionUtils is derived from `scala.util.control.NonFatal` in scala-library
which was released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Copyright (c) 2002-2023 EPFL
Copyright (c) 2011-2023 Lightbend, Inc.
Scala includes software developed at
LAMP/EPFL (https://lamp.epfl.ch/) and
Lightbend, Inc. (https://www.lightbend.com/).
5. APACHE POI SUBCOMPONENTS (as stated in the LICENSE file distributed with Apache POI 6.0.0)
APACHE POI SUBCOMPONENTS:
Apache POI includes subcomponents with separate copyright notices and
license terms. Your use of these subcomponents is subject to the terms
and conditions of the following licenses:
Office Open XML schemas (poi-ooxml-full-*.jar)
The Office Open XML schema definitions used by Apache POI are
a part of the Office Open XML ECMA Specification (ECMA-376, [1]).
As defined in section 9.4 of the ECMA bylaws [2], this specification
is available to all interested parties without restriction:
9.4 All documents when approved shall be made available to
all interested parties without restriction.
Furthermore, both Microsoft and Adobe have granted patent licenses
to this work [3,4,5].
[1] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
[2] https://www.ecma-international.org/memento/Ecmabylaws.htm
[3] https://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/osp/default.aspx
[4] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma%20PATENT/
Patent%20statements%20ok/ECMA-376%20Edition%202%20Microsoft%20Patent%20Declaration.pdf
[5] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma%20PATENT/
Patent%20statements%20ok/ECMA-376%20Adobe%20Patent%20Declaration.pdf
org.apache.poi.util.ReplacingInputStream is based on code from
inbot-utils (https://github.com/Inbot/inbot-utils)
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Inbot
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
ExceptionUtils is derived from `scala.util.control.NonFatal` in scala-library
which was released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Copyright (c) 2002-2023 EPFL
Copyright (c) 2011-2023 Lightbend, Inc.
The POI Source Release bundles the Gradle Wrapper. (https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html)
This is released under the Apache License, v2.0.
Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
The wrapper.gradle file was developed by the Apache Kafka project and is released under the Apache License, v2.0.
6. APACHE XMLBEANS NOTICE (as distributed in xmlbeans 5.4.1)
=========================================================================
== NOTICE file corresponding to section 4(d) of the Apache License, ==
== Version 2.0, in this case for the Apache XmlBeans distribution. ==
=========================================================================
This product includes software developed at
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
Portions of this software were originally based on the following:
- software copyright (c) 2000-2003, BEA Systems, .
Note: The ASF Secretary has on hand a Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from
BEA Systems, Inc. dated 9 Sep 2003 for XMLBeans signed by their EVP/CFO.
Aside from contributions to the Apache XMLBeans project, this
software also includes:
- one or more source files from the Apache Xerces-J and Apache Axis
products, Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Apache Software Foundation
- W3C XML Schema documents Copyright 2001-2003 (c) World Wide Web
Consortium (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research
Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University)
- resolver.jar from Apache Xml Commons project,
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Apache Software Foundation
ExceptionUtils is derived from `scala.util.control.NonFatal` in scala-library
which was released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Copyright (c) 2002-2023 EPFL
Copyright (c) 2011-2023 Lightbend, Inc.
Scala includes software developed at
LAMP/EPFL (https://lamp.epfl.ch/) and
Lightbend, Inc. (https://www.lightbend.com/).
7. TRADEMARKS AND NO ENDORSEMENT
Apache, Apache POI, Apache XMLBeans and the Apache feather logo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Software Foundation does not endorse AFKERIAN INTERACTIVE or the App.