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Licenses, Copyrights and Notices for Open Source Components
• include the source of the ImageMagick software itself, or of any modifications you may have
made to it, in any redistribution you may assemble that includes it;
• submit changes that you make to the software back to the ImageMagick Studio LLC (though such
feedback is encouraged).
A few other clarifications include:
• ImageMagick is freely available without charge; you may include ImageMagick on a DVD as long
as you comply with the terms of the license;
• you can give modified code away for free or sell it under the terms of the ImageMagick license or
distribute the result under a different license, but you need to acknowledge the use of the
ImageMagick software;
• the license is compatible with the GPL.
The legally binding and authoritative terms and conditions for use, reproduction, and distribution
of ImageMagick follow:
Copyright 1999-2007 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization dedicated to making
software imaging solutions freely available.
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