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License and Acknowledgements
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Software License
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The Aqsis suite is Copyright |copy| 2000 Paul C. Gregory.

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  
  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  General Public License for more details.
  
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA



Copyrights & Trademarks
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Aqsis uses some third party libraries and tools, their respective copyrights are detailed below.

  * *RenderMan* - The RenderMan Interface Procedures and Protocol are: Copyright |copy| 1988, 1989, 2000, Pixar All Rights Reserved.
  * *libtiff* - The TIFF I/O library used by Aqsis is Copyright |copy| 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, Copyright |copy| 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. It is freely available and can be downloaded from http://www.libtiff.org. 
  * *libjpeg* - The JPEG I/O library used by Aqsis is produced by the Independent JPEG Group and is Copyright |copy| 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane. It is freely available and can be downloaded from the IJG site http://www.ijg.org. 
  * *Boost* - The Boost headers and libraries used by Aqsis are distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
  * *OpenEXR* - The OpenEXR libraries used by Aqsis are Copyright |copy| 2004, Industrial Light and Magic. They are freely available and can be downloaded from http://www.openexr.com
  * *FLTK* - The FLTK (Fast Light Toolkit) used by Aqsis is Copyright |copy| 1998-2005 Bill Spitzak and others. It is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 and available from http:://www.fltk.org
  * *zlib* - The zlib library used by Aqsis is copyright |copy| 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. It is freely available and can be downloaded from http://www.zlib.net 
  * *TinyXML* - The TinyXML library used by Aqsis is copyright |copy| 2000-2006 Lee Thomason. It is licensed under the zlib license, and can be freely downloaded from http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/

