The libcharls library containing the JPEG-LS encoder and decoder in this
DCMTK module is based on the CharLS library (see http://charls.codeplex.com/).

The CharLS library is available under the following license:

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LEGAL REMARK:

Please note that Hewlett Packard claims to own patents that apply to 
JPEG-LS. Hewlett Packard grants free licenses for conformant 
implementations of JPEG-LS. OFFIS as the author of the DCMTK toolkit 
has obtained such a license, but depending on your national 
legislations companies that use DCMTK's JPEG-LS codec may need to 
also acquire a license. Read more at http://www.hpl.hp.com/loco/ if 
you intend to use this module for commercial purposes.