This package was debianized by John Goerzen jgoerzen@complete.org on Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:53:27 -0500. Current versions were downloaded from http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/. Versions up to 2.4.6 were downloaded from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/. Versions 0.6 and before were downloaded from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/applications/gif2png*.zip Copyright: 1990-1994 David Koblas 1995 Alexander Lehmann 1999 Eric S. Raymond FYI, this package may have been modified by Debian. The original sources can be found in orig.tar.gz, and the Debian packages as diff.gz, in the Debian source archive. LICENSE TERMS Two different licenses cover this code. Both conform to the Open Source Definition. Here is the original author's license. The words "the README file" have been replaced with "this file" to reflect a change in distribution packaging. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The gif2png code is Copyright (C) 1995 Alexander Lehmann 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 (see below), 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. 4. Binary only distributions of the software must include this file with the copyright statement. You are welcome to add a copyright statement for your modifications and a contact address, though. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part of this program (gifread.c) carries the following copyright: /* +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ */ /* | Copyright 1990 - 1994, David Koblas. (koblas@netcom.com) | */ /* | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software | */ /* | and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby | */ /* | granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all | */ /* | copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission | */ /* | notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is | */ /* | provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. | */ /* +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ */ Part of gif2png (the file 437_l1.c) was generated by the `trans' program written by Kosta Kostis . This package (a great source for character conversion tables) is available as ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/charsets/transXXX.tar.gz where XXX is replaced by a version number. The png sample library is Copyright (c) 1995 Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42, Inc. and is available from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/libpng*.zip The zlib compression library is Copyright (C) 1995 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is available from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/src/zlib-*.tar.gz The PNG specification is Copyright 1995, Thomas Boutell and is available from . Obviously, without the PNG effort this program wouldn't have been possible or necessary (or even conceivable). The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of CompuServe Incorporated. See the manual page for a discussion of patent issues in this code.