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

@center @sc{Singular} version @value{VERSION}
@center University of Kaiserslautern
@center Department of Mathematics and Centre for Computer Algebra
Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H.
@tex
 Sch\"onemann
@end tex
@ifinfo
 Schoenemann
@end ifinfo

Copyright @copyright{} 1986-98 ; All Rights reserved
@sp 2
                                @center NOTICE


Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software or parts
thereof and its documentation or parts thereof for non-commercial
purposes and without fee is hereby granted provided the following three
conditions are satisfied:

@enumerate
@item
The above copyright notice appears in all copies of the software
and both the copyright notice and this permission notice
appear in supporting documentation.

@item
The name of the program ("@sc{Singular}") is retained and the name of
the program is displayed when it is run interactively.

@item
Portions of the software which are modified are marked and a notice of the
modification is displayed when the program is run interactively.
@end enumerate

Neither the University of Kaiserslautern nor the Authors make any
representations about the suitability of this software for any
purpose.  This software is provided ``as is'' without express or
implied warranty.

If your intended use of @sc{Singular} is not covered by the license above,
please contact us.  Notice that in the license above we have not
granted permission to make copies of Singular to be sold, distributed
on media which are sold, or distributed along with software which is
sold. We have also not granted you permission to extract a portion
of the source code of Singular and incorporate it into another program.

If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
results that were partly obtained using @sc{Singular}, we request that you
cite @sc{Singular} and inform us about it.

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

The following parts of @sc{Singular} have their own copyright: the Gnu Multiple
Precision Library (GMP), the Multi Protocol library (MP), the Readline library,
the libfac library,  and the Factory library.
Their copyrights and licences can be found in the accompanying files
which are distributed along with these libraries.

@section Availability
The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from
@code{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/Singular}.
The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via
anonymous ftp through the following addresses
(log in as ftp with your email address as password):
@table @asis
@item GMP
@copyright{} Free Software Foundation:
@code{libgmp-2.0.2.tar.gz}
@* @code{ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
@item readline
@copyright{} Free Software Foundation:
@code{libreadline-2.0.tar.gz}
@* @code{ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
@item MP
@copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University:
@code{MP-1.1.2.tar.gz},
@* @code{mcs.kent.edu:/pub/MP}
@item factory
@copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
@code{factory-1.3b.tar.gz}
@* @code{www.mathematik.uni-kl.de:/pub/Math/Factory}
(or, via a WWW browser from http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/Factory)
@item libfac
@copyright{}  Mesollen, University  of Saarbruecken:
@code{libfac-0.3.0.tar.gz}
@* contact michael@@math.uni-sb.de for details on libfac.
@item @sc{Singular} binaries
@code{www.mathematik.uni-kl.de:/pub/Math/Singular/bin}
(or, via a WWW browser from http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/bin)
@end table

@ifset singularmanual
@section Acknowledgements

The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by
Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister and Hans
@tex
 Sch\"onemann.
@end tex
@ifinfo
 Schoenemann.
@end ifinfo
Contributions to different parts of @sc{Singular} have been made by
Olaf Bachmann,
Wolfram Decker,
@c Christian Gorzel,
Hubert Grassmann,
Ulrich Klein,
@tex
Kai Kr\"uger,
@end tex
@ifinfo
Kai Krueger,
@end ifinfo
Bernd Martin,
Wolfgang Neumann,
@tex
Thomas N\"u{\ss}ler,
@end tex
@ifinfo
Thomas Nuessler,
@end ifinfo
Wilfried Pohl,
Jens Schmidt,
Thomas Siebert,
@tex
R\"udiger Stobbe
@end tex
@ifinfo
Ruediger Stobbe
@end ifinfo
and
Tim Wichmann.

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

@end ifset

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@c @*Opinions expressed are mine,  all mine,
@c @*but they can become yours too for a small monthly fee.