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Portions copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Funded under Grant P41-RR02188 by the National Institutes of Health. 
Portions copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by Boutell.Com, Inc. 

Portions relating to GD2 format copyright 1999, 2000 Philip Warner. 

Portions relating to PNG copyright 1999, 2000 Greg Roelofs. 

Portions relating to libttf copyright 1999, 2000 John Ellson (ellson@lucent.com). 

Portions relating to JPEG copyright 2000, Doug Becker and copyright (C) 1994-1998, Thomas G. Lane. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. 

Portions relating to WBMP copyright 2000 Maurice Szmurlo and Johan Van den Brande. 

Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in any context without fee, including a commercial application, provided that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting documentation. 

This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and the intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions, ask. "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the library. Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation. 

This software is provided "AS IS." The copyright holders disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this code and accompanying documentation. 

Although their code does not appear in gd 1.8.4, the authors wish to thank David Koblas, David Rowley, and Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation for their prior contributions. 

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