
	libgeotiff Licensing
	====================

All the source code in this toolkit are either in the public domain, or under 
the MIT License.  In any event it is all considered to be free to use
for any purpose (including commercial software).  No credit is required 
though some of the code requires that the specific source code modules 
retain their existing copyright statements.  In 
particular, no part of this code is "copyleft", nor does it imply any 
requirement for users to disclose this or their own source code.

All components not carrying their own copyright message, but distributed
with libgeotiff should be considered to be under the same license as
Niles' code.

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Code by Frank Warmerdam has this copyright notice (directly copied from
X Consortium licence):

 * Copyright (c) 1999, Frank Warmerdam
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
 * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
 * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
 * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
 * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
 * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
 * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
 * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
 * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
 * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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Code by Niles Ritter is under this licence:

 *    Written By: Niles D. Ritter.
 *
 *  copyright (c) 1995   Niles D. Ritter
 *
 *  Permission granted to use this software, so long as this copyright
 *  notice accompanies any products derived therefrom.

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The cmake/*.cmake macros are under the following BSD license.  This does 
not affect produced binaries or the library.

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modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright
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