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libpng
Developer(s)Guy Eric Schalnat
Andreas Dilger
Glenn Randers-Pehrson et al
Stable release
1.2.23 / 9 Sep, 2007
Repository
Operating systemcross platform
Typeimage library
Licensezlib/libpng license
Websitehttp://libpng.org/

libpng is the official PNG reference library (originally called pnglib). It is a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. It is developed by Guy Eric Schalnat, Andreas Dilger, Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others. libpng is dependent on zlib.

The first version of the library was released on May 1, 1995.

Released under the permissive free software licence used by zlib,[1] libpng is free software.

References

  1. ^ "COPYRIGHT NOTICE, DISCLAIMER, and LICENCE:".