By the consent of its authors, Libole2 v 2.2.8 is now dually-licensed
    under the GPL and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL V2), which
    permits commercial distribution for a fee.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License or the Lesser
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    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License or Lesser General Public License
    for more details.

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    and Lesser General Public License along with this program; if not,
    write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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-- 

NOTE : Jan 23 02
    The libole2 module has now branched.
    HEAD      : is used for new development and depends on GNOME2
    gnome_1_4 : depends on the GNOME_1_4 platform

    The Gnumeric development team has inherited the maintainership.
    Please send comments, queries and patches to
	gnumeric-list@gnome.org

-- 
This code was written with grateful thanks to:

	Martin Schwartz - Author of Laola, father of free OLE2
	
Much useful information will be gleaned from the work on wine by.

	Marcus Meissner, Francis Beaudet, Sylvain St-Germain
and Thuy Nguyen

	The code breaks fairly cleanly into two seperate pieces,
firstly the raw block API whether small or large, and 2ndly the FILE *
style wrapper on top of the block API. Since there are two types of
block, there are two functions per percieved method that are accessed
via the stream's function pointer. This has a lot of good performance
characteristics, despite the percieved overhead of a 'virtual' call.
The exception to this being ms_ole_lseek which is non-staticly linked
for homogeneity.

	Further thanks for the summary information code go to

	Caolan McNamara - Heroic coding ledgend.

	for his port of the Somar Software freeware DLL functions to get 
summary info from OLE 2.0 document files, named CPPSUM available from
the Somar Software WWW site at http://www.somar.com.
	
	The summary information code was extensively updated and re -
written by Frank Chiulli incorporating both DocumentSummaryInformation
and SummaryInformation streams, and implementing several new types.	

	This code has been written by the following
people:

	Michael Meeks (michael@helixcode.com)
	Arturo Tena   (arturo@directmail.org)
	Frank Chiulli (fc-linux@home.com)

	Any patches should be sent to both Arturo and myself,


						Michael Meeks.

Jan 23 02
NOTE : See note above re new destination for bugs and patches.