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|  | The authors make NO WARRANTY or representation, either express or implied, | 
|  | 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." |