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  11 Acknowledgments and Other Issues
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  15 Silicon Graphics has seen fit to allow us to give this work away.  It
  16 is free.  There is no support or guarantee of any sort as to its
  17 operations, correctness, or whatever.  If you do anything useful with
  18 all or parts of it you need to honor the copyright notices.  It would
  19 also be nice to be acknowledged.<p>
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  23 <H2>Acknowledgements</H2>
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  25 The libtiff software was written by Sam Leffler while working for
  26 Silicon Graphics.<p>
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  28 The LZW algorithm is derived from the compress program (the proper attribution
  29 is included in the source code).  The Group 3 fax stuff originated as code
  30 from Jef Poskanzer, but has since been rewritten several times.  The latest
  31 version uses an algorithm from Frank Cringle -- consult
  32 <TT>libtiff/mkg3states.c</TT> and <TT>libtiff/tif_fax3.h</TT> for further
  33 information. The JPEG support was written by Tom Lane and is dependent on the
  34 excellent work of Tom Lane and the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) who distribute
  35 their work under friendly licensing similar to this software. Joris Van Damme
  36 implemented the robust Old JPEG decoder (as included in libtiff since version
  37 3.9.0, there was another Old JPEG module in older releases, which was
  38 incomplete and unsuitable for many existing images of that format). JBIG
  39 module was written by Lee Howard and depends on JBIG library from the Markus
  40 Kuhn. Many other people have by now helped with bug fixes and code; a few of
  41 the more persistent contributors have been:
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  44     Bjorn P. Brox
  45     Dan McCoy
  46     J.T. Conklin
  47     Richard Minner
  48     Frank D. Cringle
  49     Richard Mlynarik
  50     Soren Pingel Dalsgaard
  51     Niles Ritter
  52     Steve Johnson
  53     Karsten Spang
  54     Tom Lane
  55     Peter Smith
  56     Brent Roman
  57     Mike Welles
  58     Frank Warmerdam
  59     Greg Ward
  60     Stanislav Brabec
  61     Roman Shpount
  62     Peter Skarpetis
  63     Arvan Pritchard
  64     Bernt Herd
  65     Joseph Orost
  66     Phil Beffery
  67     Ivo Penzar
  68     Francois Dagand
  69     Albert Chin-A-Young
  70     Bruce A. Mallett
  71     Dwight Kelly
  72     Andrey Kiselev
  73     Ross Finlayson
  74     Dmitry V. Levin
  75     Bob Friesenhahn
  76     Lee Howard
  77     Joris Van Damme
  78     Tavis Ormandy
  79     Richard Nolde
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  82 (my apology to anyone that was inadvertently not listed.)
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  84 <H2>Use and Copyright</H2>
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  87 Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
  88 Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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  90 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
  91 its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
  92 that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in
  93 all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of
  94 Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or
  95 publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written
  96 permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.
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  98 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  99 EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
 100 WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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 102 IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR
 103 ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
 104 OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
 105 WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF
 106 LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
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