In order to resolve any possible confusion regarding the authorship of
gd, the following copyright statement covers all of the authors who
have required such a statement. _If you are aware of any oversights in
this copyright notice, please contact Thomas Boutell who will be
pleased to correct them._
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT FOLLOWS THIS LINE
Portions copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory. Funded under Grant P41-RR02188 by the
National Institutes of Health.
Portions copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by Boutell.Com,
Inc.
Portions relating to GD2 format copyright 1999, 2000 Philip Warner.
Portions relating to PNG copyright 1999, 2000 Greg Roelofs.
Portions relating to libttf copyright 1999, 2000 John Ellson
(
[email protected]).
Portions relating to JPEG copyright 2000, Doug Becker and copyright
(C) 1994-1998, Thomas G. Lane. This software is based in part on
the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
Portions relating to WBMP copyright 2000 Maurice Szmurlo.
_Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in
any context without fee, including a commercial application,
provided that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting
documentation._
This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and
the intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to
interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions,
ask. "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the
library. Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation.
_This software is provided "AS IS."_ The copyright holders disclaim
all warranties, either express or implied, including but not
limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, with respect to this code and accompanying
documentation.
Although their code does not appear in gd 1.8.1, the authors wish
to thank David Koblas, David Rowley, and Hutchison Avenue Software
Corporation for their prior contributions.
END OF COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
