libgsf -- The GNOME Structured File Library
Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>

   libgsf is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL included in the
file COPYING.LIB.

   The project aims to provide an efficient extensible i/o abstraction for
dealing with different structured file formats.

To report libgsf bugs, please visit bugzilla.gnome.org.
    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License
    as published by the Free Software Foundation.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
    Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

-- 

This library has taken insight from

OLE:
    - libole : Michael Meeks, Arturo Tena, and Frank Chiulli
	- which was based on
	    Laola : by Martin Schwartz
	    WINE : Marcus Meissner, Francis Beaudet, Sylvain St-Germain and
		    Thuy Nguyen
	    Caolan McNamara's work

    - POIFS : Marc Johnson

VBA:
    - libole : Michael Meeks and Frank Chiulli figuring out quite a bit about
		how a vba stream is stored.
    - OpenOffice : For confirming many of Michael's hypothesis' and supplying
		insight into the project file structure.
    - Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Labs <craiu@pcnet.ro>
	: For commenting that the dir stream had offsets too.  That way we can
	   avoid OpenOffice's trouble parsing pcode.

gzip:
    - zlib : for doing all the heavy lifting, and suppling gzio.c as an
		example.

Requirements
------------
    autoconf	2.5x	(although 2.13 may work)
    automake	1.4p6	(1.6 and 1.7 _may_ work, but I have no confirmation)

    glib	>= 1.3.10
    zlib	>= 1.1.3
    libxml2	>= 2.4.16	(not really, but it is the first to be tested)

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