1Header 2 3 4TIFF Software Distribution 5-------------------------- 6This file is just a placeholder; all the documentation is now in 7HTML in the html directory. To view the documentation point your 8favorite WWW viewer at html/index.html; e.g. 9 10 netscape html/index.html 11 12If you don't have an HTML viewer then you can read the HTML source 13or fetch a PostScript version of this documentation from the directory 14 15 ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/ 16 17If you can't hack either of these options then basically what you 18want to do is: 19 20 % ./configure 21 % make 22 % su 23 # make install 24 25More information, email contacts, and mailing list information can be 26found online at http://www.libtiff.org/. 27 28 29Use and Copyright 30----------------- 31Silicon Graphics has seen fit to allow us to give this work away. It 32is free. There is no support or guarantee of any sort as to its 33operations, correctness, or whatever. If you do anything useful with 34all or parts of it you need to honor the copyright notices. I would 35also be interested in knowing about it and, hopefully, be acknowledged. 36 37The legal way of saying that is: 38 39Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler 40Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. 41 42Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and 43its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided 44that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in 45all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of 46Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or 47publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written 48permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics. 49 50THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, 51EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY 52WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 53 54IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR 55ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, 56OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, 57WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF 58LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE 59OF THIS SOFTWARE. 60