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+libpng-legacy12 (old PNG library for compatibility with old software)
+
+PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an extensible file format for the
+lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images.
+
+This build provides libpng12.so, occasionally needed for running older
+binary-only software. It can safely be installed without conflicting
+with Slackware's own libpng (which is version 1.6).
+
+Rather than compiling libpng-1.2, this build simply repackages the latest
+official binary from Slackware 14.1's patches/.
+
+If you're looking for libpng-1.4, it's already provided in Slackware's
+aaa_elflibs package (as libpng14.so).