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| 5 The authors make NO WARRANTY or representation, either express or implied, |
| 6 with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or |
| 7 fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, |
| 8 its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy. |
| 9 |
| 10 This software is copyright (C) 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane. |
| 11 All Rights Reserved except as specified below. |
| 12 |
| 13 Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this |
| 14 software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to these |
| 15 conditions: |
| 16 (1) If any part of the source code for this software is distributed, then this |
| 17 README file must be included, with this copyright and no-warranty notice |
| 18 unaltered; and any additions, deletions, or changes to the original files |
| 19 must be clearly indicated in accompanying documentation. |
| 20 (2) If only executable code is distributed, then the accompanying |
| 21 documentation must state that "this software is based in part on the work of |
| 22 the Independent JPEG Group". |
| 23 (3) Permission for use of this software is granted only if the user accepts |
| 24 full responsibility for any undesirable consequences; the authors accept |
| 25 NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind. |
| 26 |
| 27 These conditions apply to any software derived from or based on the IJG code, |
| 28 not just to the unmodified library. If you use our work, you ought to |
| 29 acknowledge us. |
| 30 |
| 31 Permission is NOT granted for the use of any IJG author's name or company name |
| 32 in advertising or publicity relating to this software or products derived from |
| 33 it. This software may be referred to only as "the Independent JPEG Group's |
| 34 software". |
| 35 |
| 36 We specifically permit and encourage the use of this software as the basis of |
| 37 commercial products, provided that all warranty or liability claims are |
| 38 assumed by the product vendor. |
| 39 |
| 40 |
| 41 ansi2knr.c is included in this distribution by permission of L. Peter Deutsch, |
| 42 sole proprietor of its copyright holder, Aladdin Enterprises of Menlo Park, CA. |
| 43 ansi2knr.c is NOT covered by the above copyright and conditions, but instead |
| 44 by the usual distribution terms of the Free Software Foundation; principally, |
| 45 that you must include source code if you redistribute it. (See the file |
| 46 ansi2knr.c for full details.) However, since ansi2knr.c is not needed as part |
| 47 of any program generated from the IJG code, this does not limit you more than |
| 48 the foregoing paragraphs do. |
| 49 |
| 50 The Unix configuration script "configure" was produced with GNU Autoconf. |
| 51 It is copyright by the Free Software Foundation but is freely distributable. |
| 52 The same holds for its supporting scripts (config.guess, config.sub, |
| 53 ltconfig, ltmain.sh). Another support script, install-sh, is copyright |
| 54 by M.I.T. but is also freely distributable. |
| 55 |
| 56 It appears that the arithmetic coding option of the JPEG spec is covered by |
| 57 patents owned by IBM, AT&T, and Mitsubishi. Hence arithmetic coding cannot |
| 58 legally be used without obtaining one or more licenses. For this reason, |
| 59 support for arithmetic coding has been removed from the free JPEG software. |
| 60 (Since arithmetic coding provides only a marginal gain over the unpatented |
| 61 Huffman mode, it is unlikely that very many implementations will support it.) |
| 62 So far as we are aware, there are no patent restrictions on the remaining |
| 63 code. |
| 64 |
| 65 The IJG distribution formerly included code to read and write GIF files. |
| 66 To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent, GIF reading support has |
| 67 been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified to produce |
| 68 "uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW algorithm; the |
| 69 resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable by all standard |
| 70 GIF decoders. |
| 71 |
| 72 We are required to state that |
| 73 "The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of |
| 74 CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of |
| 75 CompuServe Incorporated." |
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