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Version 1.3.1

QCTools is licensed under a GPLv3 License.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.


Additional rights: QCTools GUI part and FFmpeg statistics filter are licensed under a Free BSD License.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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QCTools is an ongoing software development project led by the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities under Grant number PR-50188-13. The project initiated in January 2013 and will span 25 months, concluding on January 31, 2015 (full project description may be found here: http://www.bavc.org/qctools).


This software uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the GPLv3 (QCTools does not claim any ownership, partial or otherwise, of the FFmpeg code. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.), and meets the FFmpeg compliance requirements.


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Qwt License
Version 1.0, January 1, 2003

The Qwt library and included programs are provided under the terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL) with the following exceptions:

1. Widgets that are subclassed from Qwt widgets do not constitute a derivative work.

2. Static linking of applications and widgets to the Qwt library does not constitute a derivative work and does not require the author to provide source code for the application or widget, use the shared Qwt libraries, or link their applications or widgets against a user-supplied version of Qwt.
If you link the application or widget to a modified version of Qwt, then the changes to Qwt must be provided under the terms of the LGPL in sections 1, 2, and 4.

3. You do not have to provide a copy of the Qwt license with programs that are linked to the Qwt library, nor do you have to identify the Qwt license in your program or documentation as required by section 6 of the LGPL.


TinyXML-2 License

TinyXML-2 is released under the zlib license:

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

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  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
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CONTRIBUTORS:

BAVC Project Team 2014-2015

Sam Long, Director of Technology & Preservation
Ben Turkus, Preservation Project Manager

BAVC Project Team 2013

Moriah Ulinskas, Preservation Program Director
Lauren Sorensen, Preservation Program Manager
Jennifer Brice, Preservation Program Coordinator

Technical Team 2013-2015

Dave Rice, Senior Consultant
Devon Landes, Technical Consultant
Mark Heath, Programmer and Technical Consultant
Jérôme Martinez, Programmer and Technical Consultant
Clément Bœsch, libavfilter Advisor
Ashley Blewer, UX & Design
Erik Piil, Testing and Documentation

Other Resources

Bay Area Video Coalition Project Site:
http://www.bavc.org/qctools

BSD 3-Clause License:
http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Page:
http://www.neh.gov

Knight Foundation Prototype Fund
http://www.knightfoundation.org/funding-initiatives/knight-prototype-fund/

GNU GPLv3:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

FFmpeg License Compliance:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html

Fabrice Bellard, FFmpeg owner:
http://www.bellard.org