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English
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.
This license applies to all
fi
les found in
such packages, and which do not fall under
their own explicit license. The license affects
thus the FreeType font engine, the test
programs,documentation and make
fi
les, at the
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:
We don't promise that this software works.
However, we will be interested in any kind of
bug reports. (`as is' distribution)
You can use this software for whatever you
want, in parts or full form, without having to
pay us. (`royalty-free' usage)
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
the FreeType code. (`credits')
We speci
fi
cally permit and encourage the
inclusion of this software, with or without
modi
fi
cations, in commercial products. We dis
-
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:
"""
Portions of this software are copyright ©
<year> The FreeType Project (www.freetype.
org). All rights reserved.
"""
Please replace <year> with the value from the
FreeType version you actually use.
Legal Terms
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0. De
fi
nitions
Throughout this license, the terms `package',
`FreeType Project', and `FreeType archive' re-
fer to the set of
fi
les originally distributed
by the authors (David Turner, Robert Wilhelm,
and Werner Lemberg) as the `FreeType Project',
be they named as alpha, beta or
fi
nal release.
`You' refers to the licensee, or person us-
ing the project, where`using' is a generic term
including compiling the project's source code
as well as linking it to form a `program' or
`executable'.
This program is referred to as `a program
using the FreeType engine'.
This license applies to all
fi
les distributed in
the original FreeType Project, including all
source code, binaries and documentation,
unless otherwise stated in the
fi
le in its
original, unmodi
fi
ed form as distributed in the
original archive.
If you are unsure whether or not a particular
fi
le is covered by this license, you must contact
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
speci
fi
ed below.
1. No Warranty
THE FREETYPE PROJECT IS PROVIDED `AS
IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN-
CLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
