MS4W Licensing
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MS4W General
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In general MS4W is licensed under an MIT/X style license with the
following terms:

Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Gateway Geomatics (www.gatewaygeomatics.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.

Component Licensing
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MS4W contains several component packages that are provided under
their own licensing terms.

MapServer
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Copyright (c) 2008-2016 Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Copyright (c) 1996-2008 Regents of the University of Minnesota.

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 of this Software or works derived from
this 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
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Refer to the GDAL license found at /ms4w/gdaldata/LICENSE.TXT

MrSID
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Portions of this computer program are copyright (c) 1995-2016
LizardTech, Inc.
All rights reserved. MrSID is protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,710,835.
Foreign Patents Pending.

FreeType
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Portions of this software are copyright (c) 2016 The FreeType Project
(www.freetype.org).  All rights reserved.

Apache
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Refer to the Apache license found at /ms4w/Apache/LICENSE-APACHE.txt

PHP
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Refer to the PHP license found at /ms4w/Apache/php/license.txt

Bitstream Vera Fonts
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Refer to the Bitstream license found at /ms4w/apps/etc/fonts-license.txt