COPYRIGHT STATEMENT FOLLOWS THIS LINE

     Portions copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, by Cold
     Spring Harbor Laboratory. Funded under Grant P41-RR02188 by the
     National Institutes of Health.
     
     Portions copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, by Boutell.Com, Inc.
     
     Portions relating to GD2 format copyright 1999 Philip Warner.
     
     Portions relating to PNG copyright 1999, Greg Roelofs.
     
     Portions relating to libttf copyright 1999, John Ellson
     (ellson@lucent.com).
     
     _Permission has been granted to copy and distribute gd in any
     context without fee, including a commercial application, provided
     that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting
     documentation._
     
     This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and
     the intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to
     interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions,
     ask. "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the
     library. Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation.
     
     _This software is provided "AS IS."_ The copyright holders disclaim
     all warranties, either express or implied, including but not
     limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
     particular purpose, with respect to this code and accompanying
     documentation.
     
     Although their code does not appear in gd 1.6.3, the authors wish
     to thank David Koblas, David Rowley, and Hutchison Avenue Software
     Corporation for their prior contributions.
     
END OF COPYRIGHT STATEMENT