IBM NetObjects TopPage (README.HTM)

March, 1999

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Licence Agreement.

Licence Agreement

Usage Notes


License Agreements for non-IBM programs

This Program contains the following non-IBM programs.These non-IBM programs are licensed directly by their providers.You agree to use the non-IBM programs under the following providers' terms and conditions.

IBM PROVIDES THESE NON-IBM PROGRAMS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL IBM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR OTHER ECONOMIC CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF IBM IS INFORMED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

PNG Reference Library License Agreement

Copyright (C) 1995,1996 Guy Eric Schalnat, Group42,Inc.
Copyright (C) 1996,1997 Andreas Dilger
Copyright (C) 1998 Glenn Randers-Pehrson

Copyright notice:

The PNG Reference Library is supplied "AS IS". The Contributing Authors and Group 42, Inc. disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The Contributing Authors and Group 42, Inc. assume no liability for direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages, which may result from the use of the PNG Reference Library, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this source code, or portions hereof, for any purpose, without fee, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this source code must not be misrepresented.
  2. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such and must not be misrepresented as being the original source.
  3. This Copyright notice may not be removed or altered from any source or altered source distribution.

The Contributing Authors and Group 42, Inc. specifically permit, without fee, and encourage the use of this source code as a component to supporting the PNG file format in commercial products. If you use this source code in a product, acknowledgment is not required but would be appreciated.

zlib Library License Agreement

Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

Copyright notice:

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler
jloup@gzip.org madler@alumni.caltech.edu

If you use the zlib library in a product, we would appreciate *not* receiving lengthy legal documents to sign. The sources are provided for free but without warranty of any kind. The library has been entirely written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler; it does not include third-party code.

If you redistribute modified sources, we would appreciate that you include in the file ChangeLog history information documenting your changes.

FlashPix Format SDK

This application uses the the Live Picture Corp. enhanced Toolkit for the FlashPix(TM) format. FlashPix is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company. Portions copyright Eastman Kodak Company, 1996.

Portions copyright Hewlett-Packard, 1996

The FlashPix format uses Microsoft's OLE Structured Storage.

Kodak Photo CD Access Developer Toolkit


Photo CD Portion Copyright Eastman Kodak Company 1995

The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software License Agreement


LEGAL ISSUES
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In plain English:

  1. We don't promise that this software works. (But if you find any bugs, please let us know!)
  2. You can use this software for whatever you want. You don't have to pay us.
  3. You may not pretend that you wrote this software. If you use it in a program, you must acknowledge somewhere in your documentation that you've used the IJG code.

In legalese:

The authors make NO WARRANTY or representation, either express or implied, with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy.

This software is copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
Thomas G. Lane.
All Rights Reserved except as specified below.

Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to these conditions:

  1. If any part of the source code for this software is distributed, then this README file must be included, with this copyright and no-warranty notice unaltered; and any additions, deletions, or changes to the original files must be clearly indicated in accompanying documentation.
  2. If only executable code is distributed, then the accompanying documentation must state that "this software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group".
  3. Permission for use of this software is granted only if the user accepts full responsibility for any undesirable consequences; the authors accept NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind.

These conditions apply to any software derived from or based on the IJG code, not just to the unmodified library. If you use our work, you ought to acknowledge us.

Permission is NOT granted for the use of any IJG author's name or company name in advertising or publicity relating to this software or products derived from it. This software may be referred to only as "the Independent JPEG Group's software".

We specifically permit and encourage the use of this software as the basis of commercial products, provided that all warranty or liability claims are assumed by the product vendor.

ansi2knr.c is included in this distribution by permission of L. Peter Deutsch, sole proprietor of its copyright holder, Aladdin Enterprises of Menlo Park, CA. ansi2knr.c is NOT covered by the above copyright and conditions, but instead by the usual distribution terms of the Free Software Foundation; principally, that you must include source code if you redistribute it. (See the file ansi2knr.c for full details.) However, since ansi2knr.c is not needed as part of any program generated from the IJG code, this does not limit you more than the foregoing paragraphs do.

The configuration script "configure" was produced with GNU Autoconf. It is copyright by the Free Software Foundation but is freely distributable.

It appears that the arithmetic coding option of the JPEG spec is covered by patents owned by IBM, AT&T, and Mitsubishi. Hence arithmetic coding cannot legally be used without obtaining one or more licenses. For this reason, support for arithmetic coding has been removed from the free JPEG software. (Since arithmetic coding provides only a marginal gain over the unpatented Huffman mode, it is unlikely that very many implementations will support it.) So far as we are aware, there are no patent restrictions on the remaining code.

WARNING: Unisys has begun to enforce their patent on LZW compression against GIF encoders and decoders. You will need a license from Unisys to use the included rdgif.c or wrgif.c files in a commercial or shareware application. At this time, Unisys is not enforcing their patent against freeware, so distribution of this package remains legal. However, we intend to remove GIF support from the IJG package as soon as a suitable replacement format becomes reasonably popular.

We are required to state that"The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of CompuServe Incorporated."

TIFF Software License Agreement

Copyright (c) 1988-1995 Sam Leffler
Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA ORPROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

TWAIN Toolkit License Agreement

The TWAIN Working Group grants customer ("Customer") the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to reproduce and distribute the software and documentation of the TWAIN toolkit ("TWAIN Toolkit"). The TWAIN Toolkit was designed to be used by third parties to assist them in becoming compliant with the TWAIN standard, but it has not been developed to the standards of a commercial product. Consequently, the TWAIN toolkit is provided AS IS without any warranty. THE TWAIN Working Group disclaims all warranties in the TWAIN toolkit whether implied, express or statutory, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, noninfringement of third party rights and fitness for a particular purpose. The TWAIN Working Group disclaims all liability for damages, whether direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential, arising from the reproduction, distribution, modification, or other use of the TWAIN Toolkit.

As a condition of this license, Customer agrees to include in software programs based in whole or in part on the TWAIN Toolkit the following providions in (i) the header or similar file in such software and (ii) prominently in its documentation and to require its sublicensees to include these provisions in similar locations: The TWAIN Toolkit is distributed as is. The developer and distributors of the TWAIN Toolkit expressly disclaim all implied, express or statutory warranties including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, noninfringement of third party rights and fitness for a particular purpose. Neither the developers nor the distributors will be liable for damages, whether direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential, as a result of the reproduction, modification, distribution or other use of the TWAIN Toolkit.


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