Credits and license terms 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 Pierre-A. Joye who
will be pleased to correct them.
• Portions copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Funded under Grant P41-RR02188
by the National Institutes of Health. • Portions copyright 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Boutell.Com, Inc. • Portions
relating to GD2 format copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Philip
Warner. • Portions relating to PNG copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004 Greg Roelofs. • Portions relating to gdttf.c copyright 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 John Ellson (ellson@graphviz.org). • Portions
relating to gdft.c copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 John Ellson
(ellson@graphviz.org). • Portions copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007 Pierre-Alain Joye (pierre@libgd.org). • Portions relating
to JPEG and to color quantization copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
Doug Becker and copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004 Thomas G. Lane. This software is based in part on the work
of the Independent JPEG Group. See the file README-JPEG.TXT for more
information. • Portions relating to GIF compression copyright 1989 by Jef
Poskanzer and David Rowley, with modifications for thread safety by Thomas
Boutell. • Portions relating to GIF decompression copyright 1990, 1991,
1993 by David Koblas, with modifications for thread safety by Thomas
Boutell. • Portions relating to WBMP copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Maurice Szmurlo and Johan Van den Brande. • Portions relating to GIF
animations copyright 2004 Jaakko Hyvätti (jaakko.hyvatti@iki.fi)

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 the current release, the authors
wish to thank David Koblas, David Rowley, and Hutchison Avenue Software
Corporation for their prior contributions.


