texinfo/texi2html/test/singular_manual/COPYING.texi

@comment -*-texinfo-*-
@comment Id: COPYING.texi,v 1.1 2003/08/08 14:27:06 pertusus Exp $
@comment this file contains the copyright notice on Singular
@ifclear VERSION
@include version.texi
@end ifclear

@cindex copyright
@cindex factory
@cindex GMP
@cindex MP
@cindex readline
@cindex libfac

@center @sc{Singular} version @value{VERSION}
@center @uref{http://www.uni-kl.de/,,University of Kaiserslautern}
@center @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/,,Department of Mathematics} and  @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/,,Centre for Computer Algebra}
@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}

@center Copyright @copyright{} 1986-2003
@sp 2
@center @strong{NOTICE}

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation ( version 2 of the License );
with the following additional restrictions (which override any conflicting
restrictions in the GPL):

The following software used with @sc{Singular} have their own copyright:
the omalloc library, the readline library,
the Gnu Multiple Precision Library (GMP),
NTL: A Library for doing Number Theory (NTL),
the Multi Protocol library (MP), the
Singular-Factory library, the Singular-libfac library, and,
for the Windows distributions the Cygwin DLL and the Cygwin tools (Cygwin), and the
XEmacs editor (XEmacs).

Their copyrights and licenses can be found in the accompanying files
which are distributed along with these packages.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
(see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html,,GPL})

Please send any comments or bug reports to
@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}.

Please register yourself as a @sc{Singular} user by using the
registration form on the @sc{Singular} homepage
              @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
If for some reason you cannot access the registration form, you
can also register by sending an email to
              @email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}
with subject line @code{register} and body containing the following data:
     your name, email address, organisation, country and platform(s).


If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
results that were partly obtained using @sc{Singular}, we ask you to
cite @sc{Singular} and inform us thereof -- see
@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html},
for information on how to cite Singular.

@heading Availability

The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from
@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
@ifset singularmanual
The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via
anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
@table @asis
@item GMP, libreadline
@copyright{} Free Software Foundation
@* @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
@item MP
@copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University
@* @uref{http://www.symbolicnet.org/areas/protocols/mp.html}
@item NTL
@copyright{} Victor Shoup
@* @uref{ftp://www.shoup.net}
@item Singular-Factory
@copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
@* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Factory}
@item Singular-libfac
@copyright{}  Messollen, University of Saarbr@"ucken:
@* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Libfac}
@item @sc{Singular} binaries and sources
@uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/} or via a
WWW brow@-ser from
@uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/}
@item Cygwin
@uref{http://www.cygwin.com/}
@item Xemacs
@uref{http://www.xemacs.org}
@end table
@end ifset

@heading Acknowledgements

The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by
Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans
Sch@"onemann.

@cindex  Greuel, Gert-Martin
@cindex  Pfister, Gerhard
@cindex Sch@"onemann, Hans

Currently, the @sc{Singular} team has the following members:
Olaf Bachmann,
Anne Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger,
Thomas Keilen,
Kai Kr@"uger,
Christoph Lossen,
Viktor Levandovskyy,
Wilfred Pohl,
Mathias Schulze,
Eric Westenberger,
and
Tim Wichmann.
@cindex Bachmann, Olaf
@cindex Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger, Anne
@cindex Keilen, Thomas
@cindex Kr@"uger, Kai
@cindex Lossen, Christoph
@cindex Levandovskyy, Viktor
@cindex Pohl, Wilfred
@cindex Schulze, Mathias
@cindex Westenberger, Eric
@cindex Wichmann, Tim

Past members of the @sc{Singular} team are:
Hubert Grassmann,
Wolfgang Neumann,
Jens Schmidt,
R@"udiger Stobbe.
@cindex Grassmann, Hubert
@cindex Neumann, Wolfgang
@cindex Schmidt, Jens
@cindex Stobbe, R@"udiger

Further contributions to @sc{Singular} were made by:
Thomas Bayer,
Isabelle Bermejo,
Stephan Endra@ss{},
Jose Ignacio Farran Martin,
Wolfram Decker,
Philippe Gimenez,
Christian Gorzel,
Agnes Heydtmann,
Dietmar Hillebrand,
Tobias Hirsch,
Martin Lamm,
Bernd Martin,
Michael Me@ss{}ollen,
Thomas N@"u@ss{}ler,
Moritz Wenk.


We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by
the Volkswagen-Stiftung,
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
and the Stiftung f@"ur Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
to the @sc{Singular} project.