This package was debianized by Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> on
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:15:41 +0100.

It was downloaded from http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/

Copyright Holder: Eddie Kohler <kohler@icir.org>

License:
COPYRIGHT/LICENSE                                                               
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   All source code is Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Eddie Kohler.                     
                                                                                
   IF YOU PLAN TO USE GIFSICLE ONLY TO CREATE OR MODIFY GIF IMAGES, DON'T       
WORRY ABOUT THE REST OF THIS SECTION. Anyone can use Gifsicle however they      
wish; the license applies only to those who plan to copy, distribute, or        
alter its code. If you use Gifsicle for an organizational or commercial Web     
site, I would appreciate a link to the Gifsicle home page on any 'About         
This Server' page, but it's not required.                                       
                                                                                
   This code, with the exception of the GIF compression code in gifwrite.c,     
is distributed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or, at your     
discretion, any later version. The GNU General Public License is available      
via the Web at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>                           
                                                                                
   The following alternative license may be used at your discretion.            
                                                                                
   Permission is granted to copy, distribute, or alter gifsicle, whole          
or in part, as long as source code copyright notices are kept intact, with      
the following restrictions.                                                     
                                                                                
   1. Unisys Corp. holds a patent on the Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression           
algorithm used by GIF images. When this first became an issue several years     
ago, Unisys stated that programs available at no cost to the user, like         
Gifsicle, could use LZW compression in the context of GIF images without        
obtaining a license. If you plan to distribute GIF writing code in a            
shareware or commercial product, you will need to worry about obtaining a       
license. (Many people believe that LZW decompression is not covered by the      
Unisys patent, so GIF reading code is probably all right.)                      
                                                                                
   2. Developers or distributors who plan to use Gifsicle code, whole or in     
part, in a product whose source code will not be made available to the end      
user -- more precisely, in a context which would violate the GPL -- MUST        
contact the author and obtain permission before doing so. 

Please see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for the full license.

/* gifwrite.c - Functions to write GIFs.
   Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Eddie Kohler, eddietwo@lcs.mit.edu
   This file is part of the GIF library.

   The GIF library is free software*. With the exception of this file, the GIF
   library is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or
   later; you can copy, distribute, or alter it at will, as long as this
   notice is kept intact and this source code is made available. There is no
   warranty, express or implied. This file is distributed in the public
   domain.
   
   *There is a patent on the LZW compression method used by GIFs, and included
   in gifwrite.c. Unisys, the patent holder, allows the compression algorithm
   to be used without a license in software distributed at no cost to the
   user. The decompression algorithm is not patented. */
