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  1. @comment -*-texinfo-*-
  2. @comment Id: COPYING.texi,v 1.1 2003/08/08 14:27:06 pertusus Exp $
  3. @comment this file contains the copyright notice on Singular
  4. @ifclear VERSION
  5. @include version.texi
  6. @end ifclear
  7. @cindex copyright
  8. @cindex factory
  9. @cindex GMP
  10. @cindex MP
  11. @cindex readline
  12. @cindex libfac
  13. @center @sc{Singular} version @value{VERSION}
  14. @center @uref{http://www.uni-kl.de/,,University of Kaiserslautern}
  15. @center @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/,,Department of Mathematics} and @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/,,Centre for Computer Algebra}
  16. @center Authors: @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~greuel,,G.-M. Greuel}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~pfister,,G. Pfister}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hannes,,H. Schoenemann}
  17. @center Copyright @copyright{} 1986-2003
  18. @sp 2
  19. @center @strong{NOTICE}
  20. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  21. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  22. the Free Software Foundation ( version 2 of the License );
  23. with the following additional restrictions (which override any conflicting
  24. restrictions in the GPL):
  25. The following software used with @sc{Singular} have their own copyright:
  26. the omalloc library, the readline library,
  27. the Gnu Multiple Precision Library (GMP),
  28. NTL: A Library for doing Number Theory (NTL),
  29. the Multi Protocol library (MP), the
  30. Singular-Factory library, the Singular-libfac library, and,
  31. for the Windows distributions the Cygwin DLL and the Cygwin tools (Cygwin), and the
  32. XEmacs editor (XEmacs).
  33. Their copyrights and licenses can be found in the accompanying files
  34. which are distributed along with these packages.
  35. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  36. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  37. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  38. GNU General Public License for more details.
  39. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  40. along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  41. Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  42. (see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html,,GPL})
  43. Please send any comments or bug reports to
  44. @email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}.
  45. Please register yourself as a @sc{Singular} user by using the
  46. registration form on the @sc{Singular} homepage
  47. @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
  48. If for some reason you cannot access the registration form, you
  49. can also register by sending an email to
  50. @email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}
  51. with subject line @code{register} and body containing the following data:
  52. your name, email address, organisation, country and platform(s).
  53. If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
  54. results that were partly obtained using @sc{Singular}, we ask you to
  55. cite @sc{Singular} and inform us thereof -- see
  56. @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html},
  57. for information on how to cite Singular.
  58. @heading Availability
  59. The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from
  60. @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
  61. @ifset singularmanual
  62. The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via
  63. anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
  64. @table @asis
  65. @item GMP, libreadline
  66. @copyright{} Free Software Foundation
  67. @* @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
  68. @item MP
  69. @copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University
  70. @* @uref{http://www.symbolicnet.org/areas/protocols/mp.html}
  71. @item NTL
  72. @copyright{} Victor Shoup
  73. @* @uref{ftp://www.shoup.net}
  74. @item Singular-Factory
  75. @copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
  76. @* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Factory}
  77. @item Singular-libfac
  78. @copyright{} Messollen, University of Saarbr@"ucken:
  79. @* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Libfac}
  80. @item @sc{Singular} binaries and sources
  81. @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/} or via a
  82. WWW brow@-ser from
  83. @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/}
  84. @item Cygwin
  85. @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/}
  86. @item Xemacs
  87. @uref{http://www.xemacs.org}
  88. @end table
  89. @end ifset
  90. @heading Acknowledgements
  91. The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by
  92. Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans
  93. Sch@"onemann.
  94. @cindex Greuel, Gert-Martin
  95. @cindex Pfister, Gerhard
  96. @cindex Sch@"onemann, Hans
  97. Currently, the @sc{Singular} team has the following members:
  98. Olaf Bachmann,
  99. Anne Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger,
  100. Thomas Keilen,
  101. Kai Kr@"uger,
  102. Christoph Lossen,
  103. Viktor Levandovskyy,
  104. Wilfred Pohl,
  105. Mathias Schulze,
  106. Eric Westenberger,
  107. and
  108. Tim Wichmann.
  109. @cindex Bachmann, Olaf
  110. @cindex Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger, Anne
  111. @cindex Keilen, Thomas
  112. @cindex Kr@"uger, Kai
  113. @cindex Lossen, Christoph
  114. @cindex Levandovskyy, Viktor
  115. @cindex Pohl, Wilfred
  116. @cindex Schulze, Mathias
  117. @cindex Westenberger, Eric
  118. @cindex Wichmann, Tim
  119. Past members of the @sc{Singular} team are:
  120. Hubert Grassmann,
  121. Wolfgang Neumann,
  122. Jens Schmidt,
  123. R@"udiger Stobbe.
  124. @cindex Grassmann, Hubert
  125. @cindex Neumann, Wolfgang
  126. @cindex Schmidt, Jens
  127. @cindex Stobbe, R@"udiger
  128. Further contributions to @sc{Singular} were made by:
  129. Thomas Bayer,
  130. Isabelle Bermejo,
  131. Stephan Endra@ss{},
  132. Jose Ignacio Farran Martin,
  133. Wolfram Decker,
  134. Philippe Gimenez,
  135. Christian Gorzel,
  136. Agnes Heydtmann,
  137. Dietmar Hillebrand,
  138. Tobias Hirsch,
  139. Martin Lamm,
  140. Bernd Martin,
  141. Michael Me@ss{}ollen,
  142. Thomas N@"u@ss{}ler,
  143. Moritz Wenk.
  144. We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by
  145. the Volkswagen-Stiftung,
  146. the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  147. and the Stiftung f@"ur Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
  148. to the @sc{Singular} project.