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LICENSE.md: Explain why three licenses were used
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Expand Up @@ -138,3 +138,16 @@ freely, subject to the following restrictions:
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.


Why Three Licenses?
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The zlib License could have been used instead of the Modified (3-clause) BSD
License, and since the IJG License effectively subsumes the distribution
conditions of the zlib License, this would have effectively placed
libjpeg-turbo binary distributions under the IJG License. However, the IJG
License specifically refers to the Independent JPEG Group and does not extend
attribution and endorsement protections to other entities. Thus, it was
desirable to choose a license that granted us the same protections for new code
that were granted to the IJG for code derived from their software.

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