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Software composition
The software included in this product is comprised of various software components whose individual copyrights
are held by SHARP or by third parties.
Software developed by SHARP and open source software
The copyrights for the software components and various relevant documents included with this product that were
developed or written by SHARP are owned by SHARP and are protected by the Copyright Act, international treaties,
and other relevant laws. This product also makes use of freely distributed software and software components
whose copyrights are held by third parties. These include software components covered by a GNU General Public
License (hereafter GPL), a GNU Lesser General Public License (hereafter LGPL) or other license agreement.
Obtaining source code
Some of the open source software licensors require the distributor to provide the source code with the executable
software components. GPL and LGPL include similar requirements. For information on obtaining the source code
for the open source software and for obtaining the GPL, LGPL, and other license agreement information, visit the
following website:
http://www.sharpusa.com/gpl
We are unable to answer any questions about the source code for the open source software. The source code for
the software components whose copyrights are held by SHARP is not distributed.
Acknowledgements
The following are some of the open source software components included in this product:
• linux kernel/busybox/glibc/zlib/libpng/libjpeg/libiconv/DirectFB/OpenSSL/XMLRPC-EPI/mtd-utils/Expat/Qt/
U-Boot/PlayReady/AGG(ver2.3)/device-mapper/libfreetype/cURL/libxml2/lua/lua-xmlreader/lua-slncrypto/
Ffmpeg/SQLite/libzzip/c-ares/librt/libjanus/NTP
For the complete list, please see the URL above.
Software Copyrights
XMLRPC-EPI
Copyright 2000 © Epinions, Inc.
libjpeg
This software is copyright © 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane.
Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
SSLeay
Copyright © 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
Expat
Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper.
Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Expat maintainers.
Qt
The Qt GUI Toolkit is Copyright © 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
PlayReady
This product contains technology subject to certain intellectual property rights of Microsoft. Use or
distribution of this technology outside of this product is prohibited without the appropriate lisense(s) from
Microsoft.
Content owners use Microsoft PlayReady
TM
content access technology to protect their intellectual
property, including copyrighted content. This device uses PlayReady technology to access PlayReady-
protected content and/or WMDRM-protected content. If the device fails to properly enforce restrictions
on content usage, content owners may require Microsoft to revoke the device’s ability to consume
PlayReady-protected content. Revocation should not affect unprotected content or content protected by
other content access technologies. Content owners may require you to upgrade PlayReady to access
their content. If you decline an upgrade, you will not be able to access content that requires the upgrade.
Information on the Software License for This Product