Directory Opus 12 for Windows and this manual are Copyright© GPSoftware, Brisbane, 2001-2023. All rights reserved.
The software was written by Jonathan Potter, Leo Davidson and Dr Greg Perry, in 100% C++/Win32 using Microsoft Visual Studio.
Cris van Minnen and Trevor Morris designed and produced most of the icons and images.
This manual was written by Jonathan Potter.
GPSoftware extends its grateful thanks to the many people who have encouraged and provided assistance and feedback in the development and extensive beta testing of this software.
Opus® and Directory Opus® are registered trademarks of GPSoftware / Redbrook Pty Ltd. The Opus logo is a registered trademark of GPSoftware. DOpus™, DirOpus™ and Opus File Manager™ are trademarked 1991 by GPSoftware; Opus Magellan ™ is trademarked 1996 GPSoftware; OpusPC™, PCOpus™, Smart Favorites™ are trademarked 1998 by GPSoftware. Flat View™ is trademarked by GPSoftware 2003. Opus6™, Opus8™, Opus9™, Opus10™, Opus11™ and Opus12™ are trademarked by GPSoftware 2000-2020.
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Flickr is a trademark and copyright of SmugMug.
Photoshop is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Any other products mentioned in this manual are trademarks or copyright of their respective owners.
Directory Opus makes use of several third-party libraries; acknowledgement is
hereby given for these.
brainchild: Copyright© 1993-2005 by Jan van den Baard, included with permission from the author as of August 2003.
exiv2: Copyright© 2004-2014 Andreas Huggel, used under licence from the author.
jpeg: This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
lcms: Copyright© Marti Maria Saguer. Little CMS engine is provided free of charge under the MIT LICENSE
libpng: Copyright© 1998-2012 Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Copyright© 1996, 1997 Andreas Dilger, Copyright© 1995, 1996 Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42, Inc.
libraw: Copyright© 2008-2023 LibRaw LLC (info@libraw.org). The library includes source code from dcraw.c, Dave Coffin's raw photo decoder, Copyright 1997-2016 by Dave Coffin, dcoffin a cybercom o net. LibRaw is distributed for free under two different licenses: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 and COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) Version 1.0.
libtiff: Copyright© 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, Copyright© 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.
openssl: Copyright© 1998-2019 The Open SSL Project. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/). All rights reserved.
putty: Copyright© 1997-2022 Simon Tatham. Portions copyright Robert
de Bath, Joris van Rantwijk, Delian Delchev, Andreas Schultz, Jeroen Massar,
Wez Furlong, Nicolas Barry, Justin Bradford, Ben Harris, Malcolm Smith, Ahmad
Khalifa, Markus Kuhn, and CORE SDI S.A.
Scintilla: Copyright© 1998-2016 by Neil Hodgson <neilh@scintilla.org>, All Rights Reserved.
taglib: Copyright© Scott Wheeler. TagLib is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and Mozilla Public License (MPL).
tinyxml: Copyright© Lee Thomason. TinyXML is distributed under the zlib/libpng License.
xmp: Copyright© Adobe Systems, Inc. XMP is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
7-Zip: Copyright© 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov. 7-Zip is distributed under the GNU LGPL licence.
zlib: Copyright© 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
MIT licence (applies to lcms and putty):
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 SIMON TATHAM 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.
Scintilla licence (applies to Scintilla):
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. NEIL HODGSON DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL NEIL HODGSON BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
libwebp:
Copyright (c) 2010, Google Inc. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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* Neither the name of Google nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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