   Copyright (C) 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 Aladdin Enterprises.  All rights reserved.
  
  This file is part of Aladdin Ghostscript.
  
  Aladdin Ghostscript is distributed with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.  No author
  or distributor accepts any responsibility for the consequences of using it,
  or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he
  or she says so in writing.  Refer to the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public
  License (the "License") for full details.
  
  Every copy of Aladdin Ghostscript must include a copy of the License,
  normally in a plain ASCII text file named PUBLIC.  The License grants you
  the right to copy, modify and redistribute Aladdin Ghostscript, but only
  under certain conditions described in the License.  Among other things, the
  License requires that the copyright notice and this notice be preserved on
  all copies.

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* This file describes version 3.01 of Ghostscript. *
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********
******** An overview of Ghostscript ********
********

Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:

	- An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, and

	- A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement
the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the
PostScript language.

Ghostscript is a copyrighted work (Aladdin Enterprises owns the copyright);
it is not shareware or in the public domain.  Different versions of it are
distributed with three different licenses:

	- Versions entitled "Aladdin Ghostscript" are distributed with a
license called the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License that allows free
use, copying, and distribution by end users, but does not allow commercial
distribution.  You can always get the current version of Aladdin
Ghostscript with this license by Internet FTP from
	ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/ghost/aladdin/ghostscript*NNNN*
or
	/afs/cs.wisc.edu/public/pub/ghost/aladdin/ghostscript*NNNN*
where NNNN is the version number.  If you do not have convenient access to
the Internet, Aladdin Enterprises can send you Aladdin Ghostscript on
PC-compatible diskettes for a small fee; please contact Aladdin for more
information.  The address and phone number are given below.

	- Versions entitled "GNU Ghostscript" are distributed with the GNU
General Public License, which allows free use, and free copying and
redistribution under certain conditions (including, in some cases,
commercial distribution).  You can always get the current version of GNU
Ghostscript by Internet FTP from
	ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/ghost/gnu/ghostscript*NNNN*
or
	/afs/cs.wisc.edu/public/pub/ghost/gnu/ghostscript*NNNN*
or from any of the GNU distribution sites, such as ftp.uu.net:/systems/gnu
or gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU; you can also get GNU Ghostscript on tape or
CD-ROM from the Free Software Foundation.  For a more complete list of
sites, including sites outside the U.S., send e-mail to
gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu.

	- Versions of Ghostscript are available for commercial licensing
under a completely different name.  See below for more details.

Aladdin Ghostscript and GNU Ghostscript come with NO WARRANTY and NO
SUPPORT.  If you have a question or a bug to report, please see the section
"Trouble reporting" below for information about what to do.

GNU Ghostscript versions are released approximately a year after the
corresponding Aladdin Ghostscript version.

GNU Ghostscript may not be incorporated into commercial products which
forbid copying or for which customers cannot obtain source code for no more
than the cost of reproduction, although it may be distributed
("aggregated") with commercial products; Aladdin Ghostscript may not be
incorporated into commercial products at all, and may only be distributed
commercially under extremely limited circumstances.  However, Ghostscript
is also available for commercial licensing.  For more information about
commercial licensing of Ghostscript, please contact Aladdin Enterprises'
commercial distribution partners, which are the only entities legally
authorized to distribute Ghostscript per se on any terms other than the GNU
or Aladdin free licenses:

	In the U.S. and all parts of the world except Europe:

		Miles Jones
		Director of Marketing
		Artifex Software Inc.
		454 Las Gallinas Ave., suite 108
		San Rafael, CA 94903  U.S.A.
		voice +1-415-492-9861
		fax +1-415-492-9862
		e-mail: dir.mktg@arsoft.com

	In Europe, as a representative of Artifex Software:

		quick System Service
		Christoph Strozyk
		Sprockhoeveler Str. 55
		58455 Witten
		Germany
		Tel. +49-2302-28133-0
		Fax. +49-2302-28133-6
		e-mail: chris@quicksys.net

	(quickSyS also provides commercial support for the free versions.)


Aladdin's contact information is as follows:

		Aladdin Enterprises
		P.O. box 60264
		Palo Alto, CA 94306
		voice (415)322-0103
		fax (415)322-1734
		ghost@aladdin.com

If you call on the phone, you will usually be talking to an answering
machine.  In this case, please leave a message with your name and
phone number and the best time for us to return the call.

******** Acknowledgements ********
********

Ghostscript was originally created, and is primarily developed and
maintained, by L. Peter Deutsch, President of Aladdin Enterprises.

Special thanks are due to Russell Lang, for the GSview for Windows and PM
GSview programs and for contributing most of the code for the Microsoft
Windows and OS/2 environments; to Tim Theisen, for the Ghostview program
for X Windows and for major contributions to, and ongoing assistance with
support of, the code for the X Windows environment; and to the Independent
JPEG Group, for creating the JPEG DCT library that Ghostscript uses.

Special thanks are due to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation
for originating the GNU License, for originally motivating the creation of
Ghostscript, and for being the primary distributor of GNU Ghostscript on
the Internet.

The file helpers.doc contains a list of all the many other people who have
contributed significantly to improving Ghostscript.

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PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated.
