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1@comment -*-texinfo-*-
2@comment $Id: COPYING.texi,v 1.15 2003-05-20 16:00:50 Singular 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/~greuel,,G.-M. Greuel}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~pfister,,G. Pfister}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hannes,,H. Schoenemann}
19
20@center Copyright @copyright{} 1986-2003
21@sp 2
22@center @strong{NOTICE}
23
24This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
25it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
26the Free Software Foundation ( version 2 of the License );
27with the following additional restrictions (which override any conflicting
28restrictions in the GPL):
29
30The following software used with @sc{Singular} have their own copyright:
31the omalloc library, the readline library,
32the Gnu Multiple Precision Library (GMP),
33NTL: A Library for doing Number Theory (NTL),
34the Multi Protocol library (MP), the
35Singular-Factory library, the Singular-libfac library, and,
36for the Windows distributions the Cygwin DLL and the Cygwin tools (Cygwin), and the
37XEmacs editor (XEmacs).
38
39Their copyrights and licenses can be found in the accompanying files
40which are distributed along with these packages.
41
42This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
43but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
44MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
45GNU General Public License for more details.
46
47You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
48along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
49Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
50(see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html,,GPL})
51
52Please send any comments or bug reports to
53@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}.
54
55Please register yourself as a @sc{Singular} user by using the
56registration form on the @sc{Singular} homepage
57              @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
58If for some reason you cannot access the registration form, you
59can also register by sending an email to
60              @email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}
61with subject line @code{register} and body containing the following data:
62     your name, email address, organisation, country and platform(s).
63
64
65If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
66results that were partly obtained using @sc{Singular}, we ask you to
67cite @sc{Singular} and inform us thereof -- see
68@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html},
69for information on how to cite Singular.
70
71@heading Availability
72
73The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from
74@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}.
75@ifset singularmanual
76The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via
77anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
78@table @asis
79@item GMP, libreadline
80@copyright{} Free Software Foundation
81@* @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
82@item MP
83@copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University
84@* @uref{http://www.symbolicnet.org/areas/protocols/mp.html}
85@item NTL
86@copyright{} Victor Shoup
87@* @uref{ftp://www.shoup.net}
88@item Singular-Factory
89@copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
90@* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Factory}
91@item Singular-libfac
92@copyright{}  Messollen, University of Saarbr@"ucken:
93@* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Libfac}
94@item @sc{Singular} binaries and sources
95@uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/} or via a
96WWW brow@-ser from
97@uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/}
98@item Cygwin
99@uref{http://www.cygwin.com/}
100@item Xemacs
101@uref{http://www.xemacs.org}
102@end table
103@end ifset
104
105@heading Acknowledgements
106
107The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by
108Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans
109Sch@"onemann.
110
111@cindex  Greuel, Gert-Martin
112@cindex  Pfister, Gerhard
113@cindex Sch@"onemann, Hans
114
115Currently, the @sc{Singular} team has the following members:
116Olaf Bachmann,
117Anne Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger,
118Thomas Keilen,
119Kai Kr@"uger,
120Christoph Lossen,
121Viktor Levandovskyy,
122Wilfred Pohl,
123Mathias Schulze,
124Eric Westenberger,
125and
126Tim Wichmann.
127@cindex Bachmann, Olaf
128@cindex Fr@"ubis-Kr@"uger, Anne
129@cindex Keilen, Thomas
130@cindex Kr@"uger, Kai
131@cindex Lossen, Christoph
132@cindex Levandovskyy, Viktor
133@cindex Pohl, Wilfred
134@cindex Schulze, Mathias
135@cindex Westenberger, Eric
136@cindex Wichmann, Tim
137
138Past members of the @sc{Singular} team are:
139Hubert Grassmann,
140Wolfgang Neumann,
141Jens Schmidt,
142R@"udiger Stobbe.
143@cindex Grassmann, Hubert
144@cindex Neumann, Wolfgang
145@cindex Schmidt, Jens
146@cindex Stobbe, R@"udiger
147
148Further contributions to @sc{Singular} were made by:
149Thomas Bayer,
150Isabelle Bermejo,
151Stephan Endra@ss{},
152Jose Ignacio Farran Martin,
153Wolfram Decker,
154Philippe Gimenez,
155Christian Gorzel,
156Agnes Heydtmann,
157Dietmar Hillebrand,
158Tobias Hirsch,
159Martin Lamm,
160Bernd Martin,
161Michael Me@ss{}ollen,
162Thomas N@"u@ss{}ler,
163Moritz Wenk.
164
165
166We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by
167the Volkswagen-Stiftung,
168the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
169and the Stiftung f@"ur Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
170to the @sc{Singular} project.
171
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