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@comment $Id: COPYING.texi,v 1.35 2008-03-27 18:15:40 motsak Exp $
@comment this file contains the copyright notice on Singular
@ifclear VERSION
@include version.texi
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@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{} 1986-2007
@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 or version 3 of the License ).

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.
(Since version 3-0-3 of @sc{Singular}, all parts have GPL or LGPL
as (one of) their licences.)

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}.

If you want to be informed of new releases,
 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).


For the citation of @sc{Singular} see
@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html},
for information on how to cite Singular.

You can also support @sc{Singular} by informing us about
your result obtained by using @sc{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{http://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 Contributors
@cindex Authors
@cindex Greuel, Gert-Martin
@cindex Pfister, Gerhard
@cindex Sch@"onemann, Hans

Currently, the @sc{Singular} team has the following members:
Michael Brickenstein,
Wolfram Decker,
Alexander Dreyer,
Anne Fr@"uhbis-Kr@"uger,
Kai Kr@"uger,
Viktor Levandovskyy,
Oleksandr Motsak,
Mathias Schulze,
and
Oliver Wienand.
@cindex Brickenstein, Michael 
@cindex Decker, Wolfram
@cindex Dreyer, Alexander
@cindex Fr@"uhbis-Kr@"uger, Anne
@cindex Kr@"uger, Kai
@cindex Levandovskyy, Viktor
@cindex Motsak, Oleksandr 
@cindex Schulze, Mathias
@cindex Wienand, Oliver

Former members of the @sc{Singular} team are:
Olaf Bachmann,
Christoph Lossen,
Wolfgang Neumann,
Wilfred Pohl,
Jens Schmidt,
Thomas Siebert,
R@"udiger Stobbe,
Eric Westenberger
and
Tim Wichmann.
@cindex Bachmann, Olaf
@cindex Lossen, Christoph
@cindex Neumann, Wolfgang
@cindex Pohl, Wilfred
@cindex Schmidt, Jens
@cindex Siebert, Thomas
@cindex Stobbe, R@"udiger
@cindex Westenberger, Eric
@cindex Wichmann, Tim

Further contributions to @sc{Singular} were made by:
Thomas Bayer,
Isabelle Bermejo,
Markus Becker,
Stas Bulygin,
Kai Dehmann,
Marcin Dumnicki,
Stephan Endra@ss{},
Jose Ignacio Farran,
Vladimir Gerdt,
Philippe Gimenez,
Christian Gorzel,
Hubert Grassmann,
Fernando Hernando,
Agnes Heydtmann,
Dietmar Hillebrand,
Tobias Hirsch,
Manuel Kauers,
Simon King,
Anen Lakhal,
Martin Lamm,
Santiago Laplagne,
Gregoire Lecerf,
Francisco Javier Lobillo,
Thomas Markwig,
Bernd Martin,
Michael Me@ss{}ollen,
Andrea Mindnich,
Jorge Martin Morales,
Thomas N@"u@ss{}ler,
Carlos Rabelo,
Alfredo Sanchez-Navarro,
Henrik Strohmayer,
Christian Stussak,
Imade Sulandra,
Christine Theis,
Enrique Tobis,
Alberto Vigneron-Tenorio,
Moritz Wenk,
Denis Yanovich,
Oleksandr Iena.
@cindex Bayer, Thomas
@cindex Bermejo, Isabelle
@cindex Becker, Markus 
@cindex Bulygin, Stas
@cindex Dehmann, Kai
@cindex Dumnicki, Marcin
@cindex Endra@ss{}, Stephan
@cindex Farran, Jose Ignacio
@cindex Gerdt, Vladimir 
@cindex Gimenez, Philippe
@cindex Gorzel, Christian
@cindex Grassmann, Hubert
@cindex Hernando, Fernando 
@cindex Heydtmann, Agnes
@cindex Hillebrand, Dietmar
@cindex Hirsch, Tobias
@cindex Iena, Oleksandr 
@cindex Kauers, Manuel
@cindex King, Simon
@cindex Lakhal, Anen
@cindex Lamm, Martin
@cindex Laplagne, Santiago
@cindex Lecerf, Gregoire
@cindex Lobillo, Javier
@cindex Markwig, Thomas
@cindex Martin, Bernd
@cindex Me@ss{}ollen, Michael
@cindex Mindnich, Andrea
@cindex Morales, Jorge Martin
@cindex N@"u@ss{}ler, Thomas
@cindex Rabelo, Carlos
@cindex Sanchez-Navarro, Alfredo 
@cindex Strohmayer, Henrik
@cindex Stussak, Christian
@cindex Sulandra, Imade
@cindex Tobis, Enrique
@cindex Theis, Christine 
@cindex Vigneron-Tenorio, Alberto 
@cindex Wenk, Moritz
@cindex Yanovich, Denis

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.