3 Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1993-1995, 1999 Kirk Lauritz Johnson
5 Parts of the source code (as marked) are:
6 Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991 by Jim Frost
7 Copyright (C) 1992 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
9 Permission to use, copy, modify and freely distribute xearth for
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11 without fee, provided that both the above copyright notice and
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15 Unisys Corporation holds worldwide patent rights on the Lempel Zev
16 Welch (LZW) compression technique employed in the CompuServe GIF
17 image file format as well as in other formats. Unisys has made it
18 clear, however, that it does not require licensing or fees to be
19 paid for freely distributed, non-commercial applications (such as
20 xearth) that employ LZW/GIF technology. Those wishing further
21 information about licensing the LZW patent should contact Unisys
22 directly at (lzw_info@unisys.com) or by writing to
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