libpng

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

libpng
Developed by Guy Eric Schalnat
Andreas Dilger
Glenn Randers-Pehrson et al
Latest release 1.2.26 / 2 April 2008
Written in C
OS cross platform
Genre image library
License zlib/libpng license
Website http://libpng.org/

libpng is the official Portable Network Graphics (PNG) reference library (originally called pnglib). It is a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. It is developed by Guy Eric Schalnat, Andreas Dilger, Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others. libpng is dependent on zlib.

The first version of the library was released on May 1, 1995.

Released under the permissive free software licence used by zlib,[1] libpng is free software.

[edit] External links

[edit] References