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| with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or |
| fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, |
| its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy. |
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| This software is copyright (C) 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane. |
| All Rights Reserved except as specified below. |
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| Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this |
| software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to these |
| conditions: |
| (1) If any part of the source code for this software is distributed, then this |
| README file must be included, with this copyright and no-warranty notice |
| unaltered; and any additions, deletions, or changes to the original files |
| must be clearly indicated in accompanying documentation. |
| (2) If only executable code is distributed, then the accompanying |
| documentation must state that "this software is based in part on the work of |
| the Independent JPEG Group". |
| (3) Permission for use of this software is granted only if the user accepts |
| full responsibility for any undesirable consequences; the authors accept |
| NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind. |
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| These conditions apply to any software derived from or based on the IJG code, |
| not just to the unmodified library. If you use our work, you ought to |
| acknowledge us. |
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| Permission is NOT granted for the use of any IJG author's name or company name |
| in advertising or publicity relating to this software or products derived from |
| it. This software may be referred to only as "the Independent JPEG Group's |
| software". |
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| We specifically permit and encourage the use of this software as the basis of |
| commercial products, provided that all warranty or liability claims are |
| assumed by the product vendor. |
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| ansi2knr.c is included in this distribution by permission of L. Peter Deutsch, |
| sole proprietor of its copyright holder, Aladdin Enterprises of Menlo Park, CA. |
| ansi2knr.c is NOT covered by the above copyright and conditions, but instead |
| by the usual distribution terms of the Free Software Foundation; principally, |
| that you must include source code if you redistribute it. (See the file |
| ansi2knr.c for full details.) However, since ansi2knr.c is not needed as part |
| of any program generated from the IJG code, this does not limit you more than |
| the foregoing paragraphs do. |
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| The Unix configuration script "configure" was produced with GNU Autoconf. |
| It is copyright by the Free Software Foundation but is freely distributable. |
| The same holds for its supporting scripts (config.guess, config.sub, |
| ltconfig, ltmain.sh). Another support script, install-sh, is copyright |
| by M.I.T. but is also freely distributable. |
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| It appears that the arithmetic coding option of the JPEG spec is covered by |
| patents owned by IBM, AT&T, and Mitsubishi. Hence arithmetic coding cannot |
| legally be used without obtaining one or more licenses. For this reason, |
| support for arithmetic coding has been removed from the free JPEG software. |
| (Since arithmetic coding provides only a marginal gain over the unpatented |
| Huffman mode, it is unlikely that very many implementations will support it.) |
| So far as we are aware, there are no patent restrictions on the remaining |
| code. |
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| The IJG distribution formerly included code to read and write GIF files. |
| To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent, GIF reading support has |
| been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified to produce |
| "uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW algorithm; the |
| resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable by all standard |
| GIF decoders. |
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| We are required to state that |
| "The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of |
| CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of |
| CompuServe Incorporated." |