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Acknowledgments and Other Issues |
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Silicon Graphics has seen fit to allow us to give this work away. It |
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is free. There is no support or guarantee of any sort as to its |
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operations, correctness, or whatever. If you do anything useful with |
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all or parts of it you need to honor the copyright notices. It would |
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also be nice to be acknowledged.<p> |
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<H2>Acknowledgements</H2> |
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The libtiff software was written by Sam Leffler while working for |
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Silicon Graphics.<p> |
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The LZW algorithm is derived from the compress program (the proper attribution |
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is included in the source code). The Group 3 fax stuff originated as code |
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from Jef Poskanzer, but has since been rewritten several times. The latest |
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version uses an algorithm from Frank Cringle -- consult |
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<TT>libtiff/mkg3states.c</TT> and <TT>libtiff/tif_fax3.h</TT> for further |
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information. The JPEG support was written by Tom Lane and is dependent on the |
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excellent work of Tom Lane and the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) who distribute |
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their work under friendly licensing similar to this software. Joris Van Damme |
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implemented the robust Old JPEG decoder (as included in libtiff since version |
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3.9.0, there was another Old JPEG module in older releases, which was |
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incomplete and unsuitable for many existing images of that format). JBIG |
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module was written by Lee Howard and depends on JBIG library from the Markus |
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Kuhn. Many other people have by now helped with bug fixes and code; a few of |
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the more persistent contributors have been: |
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Bjorn P. Brox |
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Dan McCoy |
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J.T. Conklin |
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Richard Minner |
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Frank D. Cringle |
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Richard Mlynarik |
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Soren Pingel Dalsgaard |
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Niles Ritter |
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Steve Johnson |
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Karsten Spang |
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Tom Lane |
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Peter Smith |
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Brent Roman |
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Mike Welles |
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Frank Warmerdam |
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Greg Ward |
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Stanislav Brabec |
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Roman Shpount |
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Peter Skarpetis |
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Arvan Pritchard |
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Bernt Herd |
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Joseph Orost |
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Phil Beffery |
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Ivo Penzar |
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Francois Dagand |
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Albert Chin-A-Young |
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Bruce A. Mallett |
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Dwight Kelly |
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Andrey Kiselev |
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Ross Finlayson |
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Dmitry V. Levin |
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Lee Howard |
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Tavis Ormandy |
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<H2>Use and Copyright</H2> |
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Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler |
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Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
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Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and |
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its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided |
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that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in |
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all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of |
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Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or |
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publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written |
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permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics. |
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, |
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EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY |
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WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
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IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR |
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ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, |
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OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, |
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WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF |
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LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE |
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OF THIS SOFTWARE. |
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