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  1. The FreeType 2 font engine is copyrighted work and cannot be used
  2. legally without a software license. In order to make this project
  3. usable to a vast majority of developers, we distribute it under two
  4. mutually exclusive open-source licenses.
  5. This means that *you* must choose *one* of the two licenses described
  6. below, then obey all its terms and conditions when using FreeType 2 in
  7. any of your projects or products.
  8. - The FreeType License, found in the file `FTL.TXT', which is similar
  9. to the original BSD license *with* an advertising clause that forces
  10. you to explicitly cite the FreeType project in your product's
  11. documentation. All details are in the license file. This license
  12. is suited to products which don't use the GNU General Public
  13. License.
  14. Note that this license is compatible to the GNU General Public
  15. License version 3, but not version 2.
  16. - The GNU General Public License version 2, found in `GPLv2.TXT' (any
  17. later version can be used also), for programs which already use the
  18. GPL. Note that the FTL is incompatible with GPLv2 due to its
  19. advertisement clause.
  20. The contributed BDF and PCF drivers come with a license similar to that
  21. of the X Window System. It is compatible to the above two licenses (see
  22. file src/bdf/README and src/pcf/README). The same holds for the files
  23. `fthash.c' and `fthash.h'; their code was part of the BDF driver in
  24. earlier FreeType versions.
  25. The gzip module uses the zlib license (see src/gzip/zlib.h) which too is
  26. compatible to the above two licenses.
  27. The MD5 checksum support (only used for debugging in development builds)
  28. is in the public domain.
  29. --- end of LICENSE.TXT ---