# Part I. RSVG Overview

The GNOME SVG Library (RSVG) is library for rendering SVG and SVGZ files. RSVG is released under the GNU Library General Public License (GNU LGPL), which allows for flexible licensing of client applications.

RSVG depends on the following libraries:

GLib | A general-purpose utility library, not specific to graphical user interfaces. GLib provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on.
Pango | A general-purpose text library. http://www.pango.org/
GdkPixbuf | A general-purpose image library.
Cairo | Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available. http://www.cairographics.org/