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FREETYPE LICENSES
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The FreeType 2 font engine is copyrighted work and cannot be used
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legally without a software license. In order to make this project
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usable to a vast majority of developers, we distribute it under two
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mutually exclusive open-source licenses.
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This means that *you* must choose *one* of the two licenses described
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below, then obey all its terms and conditions when using FreeType 2 in
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any of your projects or products.
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- The FreeType License, found in the file `docs/FTL.TXT`, which is
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similar to the original BSD license *with* an advertising clause
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that forces you to explicitly cite the FreeType project in your
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product's documentation. All details are in the license file.
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This license is suited to products which don't use the GNU General
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Public License.
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Note that this license is compatible to the GNU General Public
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License version 3, but not version 2.
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- The GNU General Public License version 2, found in
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`docs/GPLv2.TXT` (any later version can be used also), for
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programs which already use the GPL. Note that the FTL is
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incompatible with GPLv2 due to its advertisement clause.
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The contributed BDF and PCF drivers come with a license similar to
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that of the X Window System. It is compatible to the above two
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licenses (see files `src/bdf/README` and `src/pcf/README`). The same
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holds for the source code files `src/base/fthash.c` and
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`include/freetype/internal/fthash.h`; they were part of the BDF driver
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in earlier FreeType versions.
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The gzip module uses the zlib license (see `src/gzip/zlib.h`) which
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too is compatible to the above two licenses.
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The files `src/autofit/ft-hb.c` and `src/autofit/ft-hb.h` contain code
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taken almost verbatim from the HarfBuzz file `hb-ft.cc`, which uses
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the 'Old MIT' license, compatible to the above two licenses.
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The MD5 checksum support (only used for debugging in development
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builds) is in the public domain.
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--- end of LICENSE.TXT ---
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