1 % MUtilities – README
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6 The **MUtilities** library is a collection of routines and classes to extend the [*Qt cross-platform framework*](http://qt-project.org/). It contains various convenience and utility functions as well as wrappers for OS-specific functionalities. The library was originally created as a "side product" of the [**LameXP**](http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/) application: Over the years, a lot of code, **not** really specific to *LameXP*, had accumulated in the *LameXP* code base. Some of that code even had been used in other projects too, in a "copy & paste" fashion – which had lead to redundancy and much complicated maintenance. In order to clean-up the LameXP code base, to eliminate the ugly redundancy and to simplify maintenance, the code in question has finally been refactored into the **MUtilities** (aka "MuldeR's Utilities for Qt") library. This library now forms the foundation of *LameXP* and [*other OpenSource projects*](https://github.com/lordmulder).
11 This library is free software. It is released under the terms of the [*GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 2.1*](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html).
13 MUtilities - MuldeR's Utilities for Qt
14 Copyright (C) 2004-2016 LoRd_MuldeR <MuldeR2@GMX.de>. Some rights reserved.
16 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
17 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
18 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
19 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
21 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
22 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
23 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
24 Lesser General Public License for more details.
26 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
27 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
28 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
33 The following third-party code is used in the MUtilities library:
35 * **Keccak/SHA-3 Reference Implementation**
36 Implementation by the Keccak, Keyak and Ketje Teams, namely, Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaƫl Peeters, Gilles Van Assche and Ronny Van Keer
37 No Copyright / Dedicated to the Public Domain
39 * **Natural Order String Comparison**
40 Copyright (C) 2000, 2004 by Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
41 Released under the zlib License
43 * **Adler-32 Checksum Algorithm (from zlib)**
44 Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
45 Released under the zlib License