copyright.txt

Nokia H.264/AVC Encoder/Decoder Usage Manual

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COPYRIGHT, LICENSE AND WARRANTY INFORMATION

This software module has been originally developed by Nokia Corporation. 

Provided that a person, entity or a company willing to use the Software 
(hereinafter Licensee) comply with all the terms and conditions of this 
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limited license under copyrights owned by Nokia to use the Software for 
the sole purpose of creating, manufacturing, selling, marketing, or  
distributing (including the right to make modifications to the Software) 
a fully compliant decoder implementation (hereinafter "Decoder") of 
ITU-T Recommendation H.264 / ISO/IEC International Standard 14496-10 and 
an encoder implementation producing output that is decodable with the 
Decoder.

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        or b,  
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