Comment 7 for bug 502084

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

I've found out why poppler-data is not installed by default. It's in multiverse because it's non-free.

From comment 15 in bug #458288:

I know, it's in multiverse since it includes copyrighted (and patent pending) technologies by Adobe.
However, this seems like good news in the right direction from Adobe: http://lwn.net/Articles/354360/