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The TatukGIS Developer Kernel contains code that is derived or inspired by code developed outside TatukGIS corporation. This section lists all copyrights in the order they appear in the source code.

Unit has a broader meaning than a single file. If functionality is split between more than one file, then only the main unit name is presented in this list.

This unit was partially based on GDAL Contour Generator API.

Copyright (c) 2003, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com>
Copyright (c) 2003, Applied Coherent Technology Corporation, www.actgate.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.

Copyright (c) 2000, Frank Warmerdam

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License..

This unit was partially based on CRS.C:

CRS.C - Center for Remote Sensing rectification routines

Written By: Brian J. Buckley

       At: The Center for Remote Sensing
           Michigan State University
           302 Berkey Hall
           East Lansing, MI  48824
           (517)353-7195

Written: 12/19/91

Last Update: 12/26/91 Brian J. Buckley
Last Update:  1/24/92 Brian J. Buckley
 Added printout of trnfile. Triggered by BDEBUG.
Last Update:  1/27/92 Brian J. Buckley
 Fixed bug so that only the active control points were used.

Copyright (c) 1992, Michigan State University

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.

This unit was partially based on MITAB:

- Copyright (c) 1998-2000, Daniel Morissette
- Copyright (c) 1998-2000, Frank Warmerdam
- Copyright (c) 1999,2000, Stephane Villeneuve

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.

This unit was inspired by dgnlib:

Author:   Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
 
Copyright (c) 2001, Avenza Systems Inc, http://www.avenza.com
 
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License..

This unit was partially based on tiff-v3.5.5:

- Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
- Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in
all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of
Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or
publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written
permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
OF THIS SOFTWARE.

//Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.//

=== Unit GisFileSDTS ===

This unit was partially based on SDTS Translator Implementation:

Copyright (c) 1999, Frank Warmerdam

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.

This unit was partially based on SWEEP2:

The author of this software is Steven Fortune.  Copyright (c) 1994 by AT&T
Bell Laboratories.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy
or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting
documentation for such software.
THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTY.  IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR AT&T MAKE ANY
REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY
OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.

This decompression algorithms are inspired by E00COMPR:

Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, Daniel Morissette
All rights reserved. This software may be copied
or reproduced, in all or in part, without the prior written
consent of its author, Daniel Morissette
(danmo@videotron.ca). However, any material copied or
reproduced must bear the original copyright notice (above),
this original paragraph, and the original disclaimer (below).

The entire risk as to the results and performance
of the software, supporting text and other information
contained in this file (collectively called the "Software")
is with the user. Although considerable efforts have been
used in preparing the Software, the author does not warrant
the accuracy or completeness of the Software. In no event
will the author be liable for damages, including loss of
profits or consequential damages, arising out of the use of
the Software.

Sublicensing of this unit is a subject of TatukGIS Developer Kernel License.

DK for Java uses JNA:

https://github.com/java-native-access/jna

This library is dual-licensed: LGPL 2.1 or later and
Apache License 2.0. (starting with JNA version 4.0.0).

DK for Java uses this license:

Copyright (c) 2017 Matthias Bläsing, All Rights Reserved

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

DK for ASPNET uses PDFSharp:

Copyright (c) 2005-2014 empira Software GmbH, Troisdorf (Germany)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

DK for NET NETCore.Windows uses a custom System.Device:

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Morten Nielsen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE. 

GDAL/OGR support requires a a GDAL dll.

In general GDAL/OGR is licensed under an MIT/X style license with the following terms:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this 
software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software 
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, 
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following 
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

The TatukGIS Developer Kernel deployment may contain grid shift data from the sources listed below. Upon deploying those files please, verify the license status and embed proper copyright statements as required by the original provider.

• Australia
  1. National_84_02_07_01
A66_National_13_09_01
     • https://github.com/icsm-au/transformation_grids
     • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Austria
  1. AT_GIS_GRID
     • http://www.bev.gv.at/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/BEV_PORTAL_CONTENT_ALLGEMEIN/0200_PRODUKTE/UNENTGELTLICHE_PRODUKTE_DES_BEV/GIS-Grid.zip
     • Public
• Belgium
  1. bd72lb72_etrs89lb08
     • http://www.ngi.be/Common/Lambert2008/NTv2.zip
     • ©2014-2016 Nicolas SIMON under Creative Commons attribution license (CC BY)
• Canada
  1. NTV2_0
     • https://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/ntv2-grid-shift-files-gsb
     • Open Government Licence - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
• Germany
  1. BETA2007
     • http://www.crs-geo.eu/BeTA2007
     • Public
  2. NTv2_SN
     • http://www.landesvermessung.sachsen.de/inhalt/etrs/method/method.html#ntv2
     • Public
• Great Britain
  1. OSTN15_NTv2_OSGBtoETRS
     • https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/help-and-support/navigation-technology/os-net/ostn02-ntv2-format.html
     • The OSTN02 data in NTv2 format is licensed to users pursuant to the terms of the Open Source Initiative BSD Licence (see the opensource bsd license page).
       The copyright notice which must be attached to the software under the terms of the BSD licence is as follows:
       © Crown copyright, Ordnance Survey and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) 2002. All rights reserved.'© Crown copyright, Ordnance Survey and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) 2002. All rights reserved.
• Spain
  1. 100800401
     • http://www.icgc.cat/en/content/download/48766/337967/version/1/file/Malla_NTv2_11_03.zip
     • Creative Commons, http://www.icgc.cat/en/Help/Legal-notice
• Swiss
  1. CHENYX06_etrs
     • https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/products/geo_software/GIS_info
     • These data sets may be freely distributed as long as the content is not changed.
• USA
  1. HARN
     • https://vdatum.noaa.gov/download/data/vdatum_NADCON.zip
     • Public (https://vdatum.noaa.gov/download_agreement.php)
  2. NADCON
     • https://vdatum.noaa.gov/download/data/vdatum_NADCON.zip
     • Public (https://vdatum.noaa.gov/download_agreement.php)