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Other libraries used

GEOS

GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite
(JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This
includes all the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and
spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions.

GEOS is available under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), and
is a project of OSGeo.

project site and source access at : http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/

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GDAL

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released
under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application
for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline
utilities for data translation and processing.

project site and source access at : http://www.gdal.org/

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POSTGRES
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.It runs on
all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac
OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant. PostgreSQL is
released under the PostgreSQL License, a liberal Open Source license, similar to
the BSD or MIT licenses.

project site and source access at : http://www.postgresql.org/

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ILWIS

For the binaries of Ilwis 3.8.4 you can receive a complete machine-readable copy of
the source code by sending a written request to:
info@52north.org

52�North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH


Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24
48155 Muenster, Germany

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CURL

Curl and libcurl are true Open Source/Free Software and meet all definitions as
such. It means that you are free to modify and redistribute all contents of the
curl distributed archives. You may also freely use curl and libcurl in your
commercial projects.

Curl and libcurl are licensed under a MIT/X derivate license

project site and source access at : http://curl.haxx.se/


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FREETYPE

It is written in C, designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and


portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most
vector and bitmap font formats.

FreeType comes with two licenses from which you can choose the one which fits your
needs best.

The FreeType License (FTL) is the most commonly used one. It is a BSD-style license
with a credit clause and thus compatible with the GNU Public License (GPL) version
3, but not with the GPL version 2.

The GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. Use it for all projects which use
the GPLv2 also, or which need a license compatible to the GPLv2.

project site and source access at : http://www.freetype.org/


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EXPAT
In computing, Expat is a stream-oriented XML 1.0 parser library, written in C. As
one of the first available open-source XML parsers

Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of
the License contained in the file COPYING distributed
with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license.

project site and source access at : http://expat.sourceforge.net/

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PROJ4
PROJ.4 Cartographic Projections library originally written by Gerald Evenden then
of the USGS.

PROJ.4 has been placed under an MIT license

project site and source access at : http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/

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