Hi Folks,

An update: I was able to contact Martin McClure, and he stated: 
"Certainly. I hereby grant MIT license to all TIFFReadWriter code I have 
written." He's also pleased we'll give good use to his code.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Juan Vuletich wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> In Mac OS X 10.5, retrieving graphics from the clipboard usually 
> requires TIFF decoding. Googling a bit, I found 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/80994 
> . It is a basic TIFF reader by Martin McClure. I enhaned it, with 
> RGB24 and LZW support. TIFF encoding is not supported, but not hard to 
> do if needed.
>
> I could not contact Martin to get his permission to republish his 
> code, but he already did so, and he also signed the MIT license 
> agreement with VPRI. So it is ok to say that this code is under MIT.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich