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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
  29 attribution is included in the source code).  The Group 3 fax stuff
  30 originated as code from Jef Poskanzer, but has since been rewritten
  31 several times.  The latest version uses an algorithm from Frank
  32 Cringle -- consult <TT>libtiff/mkg3states.c</TT> and
  33 <TT>libtiff/tif_fax3.h</TT> for further information.
  34 The JPEG support was written by Tom Lane and is dependent on the
  35 excellent work of Tom Lane and the Independent JPEG Group (IJG)
  36 who distribute their work under friendly licensing similar to this
  37 software.
  38 Many other people have by now helped with bug fixes and code; a
  39 few of the more persistent contributors have been:
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  42     Bjorn P. Brox
  43     Dan McCoy
  44     J.T. Conklin
  45     Richard Minner
  46     Frank D. Cringle
  47     Richard Mlynarik
  48     Soren Pingel Dalsgaard
  49     Niles Ritter
  50     Steve Johnson
  51     Karsten Spang
  52     Tom Lane
  53     Peter Smith
  54     Brent Roman
  55     Mike Welles
  56     Frank Warmerdam
  57     Greg Ward
  58     Stanislav Brabec
  59     Roman Shpount
  60     Peter Skarpetis
  61     Arvan Pritchard
  62     Bernt Herd
  63     Joseph Orost
  64     Phil Beffery
  65     Ivo Penzar
  66     Francois Dagand
  67     Albert Chin-A-Young
  68     Bruce A. Mallett
  69     Dwight Kelly
  70     Andrey Kiselev
  71     Ross Finlayson
  72     Dmitry V. Levin
  73     Bob Friesenhahn
  74     Lee Howard
  75     Joris Van Damme
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  78 (my apology to anyone that was inadvertently not listed.)
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  80 <H2>Use and Copyright</H2>
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  83 Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
  84 Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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  86 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
  87 its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
  88 that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in
  89 all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of
  90 Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or
  91 publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written
  92 permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.
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  94 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  95 EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
  96 WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  97
  98 IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR
  99 ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
 100 OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
 101 WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF
 102 LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
 103 OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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