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The FreeType Project LICENSE
2006-Jan-27
Copyright 1996-2002, 2006 by David Turner,
Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg
Introduction
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The FreeType Project is distributed in several
archive packages;
some of them may contain, in addition to the
FreeType font engine,various tools and contri-
butions which rely on, or relate to, the FreeType
Project.
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such packages, and which do not fall under
their own explicit license. The license affects
thus the FreeType font engine, the test
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very least.
This license was inspired by the BSD,
Artistic, and IJG (Independent JPEG Group)
licenses, which all encourage inclusion and use
of free software in commercial and freeware
products alike. As a consequence, its main
points are that:
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However, we will be interested in any kind of
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You can use this software for whatever you
want, in parts or full form, without having to
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You may not pretend that you wrote this
software. If you use it, or only parts of it, in
a program, you must acknowledge somewhere
in your documentation that you have used
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inclusion of this software, with or without
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claim all warranties covering The FreeType
Project and assume no liability related to The
FreeType Project.
Finally, many people asked us for a pre-
ferred form for a credit/disclaimer to use in
compliance with this license. We thus
encourage you to use the following text:
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Portions of this software are copyright ©
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org). All rights reserved.
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Please replace <year> with the value from the
FreeType version you actually use.
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This program is referred to as `a program
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the original FreeType Project, including all
source code, binaries and documentation,
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original archive.
If you are unsure whether or not a particular
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us to verify this.
The FreeType Project is copyright (C) 1996-
2000 by David Turner,
Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. All
rights reserved except as
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1. No Warranty
THE FREETYPE PROJECT IS PROVIDED `AS
