Include some comments/doc tweaks from jpeg-9+
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@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or
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fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you,
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its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy.
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This software is copyright (C) 1991-2012, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
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This software is copyright (C) 1991-2016, Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding.
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All Rights Reserved except as specified below.
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Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
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@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ ltmain.sh). Another support script, install-sh, is copyright by X Consortium
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but is also freely distributable.
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The IJG distribution formerly included code to read and write GIF files.
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To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent, GIF reading support has
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been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified to produce
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"uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW algorithm; the
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resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable by all standard
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GIF decoders.
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To avoid entanglement with the Unisys LZW patent (now expired), GIF reading
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support has been removed altogether, and the GIF writer has been simplified
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to produce "uncompressed GIFs". This technique does not use the LZW
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algorithm; the resulting GIF files are larger than usual, but are readable
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by all standard GIF decoders.
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We are required to state that
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"The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
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@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ The best short technical introduction to the JPEG compression algorithm is
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Communications of the ACM, April 1991 (vol. 34 no. 4), pp. 30-44.
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(Adjacent articles in that issue discuss MPEG motion picture compression,
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applications of JPEG, and related topics.) If you don't have the CACM issue
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handy, a PostScript file containing a revised version of Wallace's article is
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available at http://www.ijg.org/files/wallace.ps.gz. The file (actually
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handy, a PDF file containing a revised version of Wallace's article is
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available at http://www.ijg.org/files/Wallace.JPEG.pdf. The file (actually
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a preprint for an article that appeared in IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics)
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omits the sample images that appeared in CACM, but it includes corrections
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and some added material. Note: the Wallace article is copyright ACM and IEEE,
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@@ -246,9 +246,7 @@ ARCHIVE LOCATIONS
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The "official" archive site for this software is www.ijg.org.
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The most recent released version can always be found there in
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directory "files". This particular version will be archived as
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http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz, and in Windows-compatible
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"zip" archive format as http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsr8d.zip.
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directory "files".
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The JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article is a source of some
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general information about JPEG.
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