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Software License

The Aqsis suite is Copyright © 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

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

  • RenderMan - The RenderMan Interface Procedures and Protocol are: Copyright © 1988, 1989, 2000, Pixar All Rights Reserved.
  • libtiff - The TIFF I/O library used by Aqsis is Copyright © 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, Copyright © 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 © 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 © 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 © 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 © 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 © 2000-2006 Lee Thomason. It is licensed under the zlib license, and can be freely downloaded from http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/