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1@comment -*-texinfo-*-
2@comment $Id: COPYING.texi,v 1.7 2000-05-23 14:41:20 obachman Exp $
3@comment this file contains the copyright notice on Singular
4@ifclear VERSION
5@include version.texi
6@end ifclear
7
8@cindex copyright
9@cindex factory
10@cindex GMP
11@cindex MP
12@cindex readline
13@cindex libfac
14
15@center @sc{Singular} version @value{VERSION}
16@center @uref{http://www.uni-kl.de/,,University of Kaiserslautern}
17@center @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/,,Department of Mathematics} and  @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/,,Centre for Computer Algebra}
18@center Authors: @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwagag/E/Greuel,,G.-M. Greuel}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwagag/E/Pfister,,G. Pfister}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hannes,,H. Schoenemann}
19
20@center Copyright @copyright{} 1986-2000; All Rights Reserved
21@sp 2
22@center @strong{NOTICE}
23
24Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software or parts
25thereof and its documentation or parts thereof for non-commercial
26purposes and without fee is hereby granted provided the following four
27conditions are satisfied:
28
29@enumerate
30@item
31The above copyright notice appears in all copies of the software
32and both the copyright notice and this permission notice
33appear in supporting documentation.
34
35@item
36The name of the program ("@sc{Singular}") is retained.
37
38@item
39Portions of the software which are modified are marked.
40
41@item
42You have registered yourself as a @sc{Singular} user by sending email to
43@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}
44with the subject line
45@code{register}.
46@end enumerate
47
48Neither the University of Kaiserslautern nor the authors make any
49representations about the suitability of this software for any
50purpose.  This software is provided ``as is'' without express or
51implied warranty.
52
53If your intended use of @sc{Singular} is not covered by the license above,
54please contact us.  Notice that in the license above we have not
55granted permission to make copies of Singular to be sold, distributed
56on media which are sold, or distributed along with software which is
57sold.
58
59If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
60results that were partly obtained using @sc{Singular}, we request that you
61cite @sc{Singular} and inform us about it -- see
62@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html},
63for information on how to cite Singular.
64
65Please send any comments or bug reports to
66@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}.
67
68The following parts of @sc{Singular} have their own copyright: the Gnu
69Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the Multi Protocol library (MP), the
70Factory library, the libfac library, and, for the Windows 9X/NT
71distributions the Cygwin DLL and the Cygwin tools (Cygwin) and the
72XEmacs editor (XEmacs).
73
74Their copyrights and licences can be found in the accompanying files
75which are distributed along with these packages.
76
77@heading Availability
78
79The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from
80@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
81@ifset singularmanual
82The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via
83anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
84@table @asis
85@item GMP
86@copyright{} Free Software Foundation
87@* @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
88@item MP
89@copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University
90@* @uref{http://SymbolicNet.mcs.kent.edu/areas/protocols/mp.html}
91@item Factory
92@copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
93@* Contact @email{factory@@mathematik.uni-kl.de} for details on Factory.
94@item libfac
95@copyright{}  Messollen, University of
96Saarbr@"ucken:
97@* Contact @email{michael@@math.uni-sb.de} for details on libfac.
98@item @sc{Singular} binaries
99@uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/} or via a
100WWW brow@-ser from
101@uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/}
102@item Cygwin
103@uref{http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/}
104@item Xemacs
105@uref{http://www.xemacs.org}
106@end table
107@end ifset
108
109@heading Acknowledgements
110
111The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by
112Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans
113Sch@"onemann.
114
115@cindex  Greuel, Gert-Martin
116@cindex  Pfister, Gerhard
117@cindex Sch@"onemann, Hans
118
119Contributions to the kernel of @sc{Singular} have been made by
120Olaf Bachmann,
121Hubert Grassmann,
122Kai Kr@"uger,
123Michael Messollen,
124Wolfgang Neumann,
125Thomas N@"u@ss{}ler,
126Wilfred Pohl,
127Jens Schmidt,
128Thomas Siebert,
129R@"udiger Stobbe,
130Moritz Wenk
131and
132Tim Wichmann.
133@cindex Bachmann, Olaf
134@cindex Grassmann, Hubert
135@cindex Kr@"uger, Kai
136@cindex Messollen Michael
137@cindex Neumann, Wolfgang
138@cindex N@"u@ss{}ler, Thomas
139@cindex Pohl, Wilfred
140@cindex Schmidt, Jens
141@cindex Siebert, Thomas
142@cindex Stobbe, R@"udiger
143@cindex Wenk, Moritz
144@cindex Wichmann, Tim
145
146
147@sc{Singular} libraries have furthermore been contributed by
148Stephan Endra@ss{},
149Wolfram Decker,
150Anne Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger,
151Christian Gorzel,
152Agnes Eileen Heydtmann,
153Dietmar Hillebrand,
154Ulrich Klein,
155Martin Lamm,
156Bernd Martin,
157Mathias Schulze,
158and
159Moritz Wenk.
160
161@cindex Endra@ss{}, Stephan
162@cindex Decker, Wolfram
163@cindex  Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uge,r Anne
164@cindex Gorzel, Christian
165@cindex Heydtmann, Agnes Eileen
166@cindex Hillebrand, Dietmar
167@cindex Klein, Ulrich
168@cindex Lamm, Martin
169@cindex Martin, Bernd
170@cindex Schulze, Mathias
171
172We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by
173the Volkswagen-Stiftung,
174the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
175and the Stiftung f@"ur Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
176to the @sc{Singular} project.
177
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