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1@comment -*-texinfo-*-
2@comment $Id: copyright.tex,v 1.19 1998-07-28 12:03:57 Singular Exp $
3@comment this file contains the copyright notice on Singular
4
5@c The following directives are necessary for proper compilation
6@c with emacs (C-c C-e C-r).  Please keep it as it is.  Since it
7@c is wrapped in `@ignore' and `@end ignore' it does not harm `tex' or
8@c `makeinfo' but is a great help in editing this file (emacs
9@c ignores the `@ignore').
10@ignore
11%**start
12\input texinfo.tex
13@setfilename copyright.info
14@node Top, Preface
15@menu
16* Preface::
17@end menu
18@node Preface, General concepts, Top, Top
19@chapter Preface
20%**end
21@end ignore
22
23@cindex copyright
24@cindex factory
25@cindex GMP
26@cindex MP
27@cindex readline
28@cindex libfac
29
30@center @sc{Singular} version @value{VERSION}
31@center University of Kaiserslautern
32@center Department of Mathematics and Centre for Computer Algebra
33@center Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann
34
35@center Copyright @copyright{} 1986-98; All Rights Reserved
36@sp 2
37                                @center @strong{NOTICE}
38
39Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software or parts
40thereof and its documentation or parts thereof for non-commercial
41purposes and without fee is hereby granted provided the following four
42conditions are satisfied:
43
44@enumerate
45@item
46The above copyright notice appears in all copies of the software
47and both the copyright notice and this permission notice
48appear in supporting documentation.
49
50@item
51The name of the program ("@sc{Singular}") is retained.
52
53@item
54Portions of the software which are modified are marked.
55
56@item
57You have registered yourself as a Singular user by sending email to @*
58@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}
59with the subject line (or, mail body)
60@code{register}.
61@end enumerate
62
63Neither the University of Kaiserslautern nor the authors make any
64representations about the suitability of this software for any
65purpose.  This software is provided ``as is'' without express or
66implied warranty.
67
68If your intended use of @sc{Singular} is not covered by the license above,
69please contact us.  Notice that in the license above we have not
70granted permission to make copies of Singular to be sold, distributed
71on media which are sold, or distributed along with software which is
72sold.
73
74If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
75results that were partly obtained using @sc{Singular}, we request that you
76cite @sc{Singular} (see
77@url{http://www.ma@-the@-ma@-tik.uni-kl.de/~zca/Singular/how_to_cite.html}
78on information on how to cite Singular) and inform us about it.
79
80Please send any comments or bug reports to
81@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}.
82
83The following parts of @sc{Singular} have their own copyright: the Gnu Multiple
84Precision Library (GMP), the Multi Protocol library (MP), the Readline library,
85the Factory library, and the libfac library.
86Their copyrights and licences can be found in the accompanying files
87which are distributed along with these libraries.
88
89@section Availability
90
91The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from
92@url{http://www.ma@-the@-ma@-tik.uni-kl.de/~zca/Singular}.
93@ifset singularmanual
94The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via
95anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
96@table @asis
97@item GMP
98@copyright{} Free Software Foundation:
99@code{libgmp-2.0.2.tar.gz}
100@* @url{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
101@item readline
102@copyright{} Free Software Foundation:
103@code{libreadline-2.0.tar.gz}
104@* @url{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors
105@item MP
106@copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University:
107@code{MP-1.1.2.tar.gz},
108@* @url{http://SymbolicNet.mcs.kent.edu/areas/protocols/mp.html}
109@item Factory
110@copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
111@code{factory-1.3b.tar.gz}
112@* Contact @email{factory@@mathematik.uni-kl.de} for details on Factory.
113@item libfac
114@copyright{}  Messollen, University of
115@tex
116Saarbr\"ucken:
117@end tex
118@ifinfo
119Saarbruecken:
120@end ifinfo
121@code{libfac-0.3.0.tar.gz}
122@* Contact @email{michael@@math.uni-sb.de} for details on libfac.
123@item @sc{Singular} binaries
124@url{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/} or via a
125WWW brow@-ser from
126@url{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/@-Singular/}
127@end table
128@end ifset
129
130@section Acknowledgements
131
132The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by
133Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans
134@tex
135Sch\"onemann.
136@end tex
137@ifinfo
138Schoenemann.
139@end ifinfo
140
141Contributions to the kernel of @sc{Singular} have been made by
142Olaf Bachmann,
143Hubert Grassmann,
144@tex
145Kai Kr\"uger,
146@end tex
147@ifinfo
148Kai Krueger,
149@end ifinfo
150Wolfgang Neumann,
151@tex
152Thomas N\"u{\ss}ler,
153@end tex
154@ifinfo
155Thomas Nuessler,
156@end ifinfo
157Wilfred Pohl,
158Jens Schmidt,
159Thomas Siebert,
160@tex
161R\"udiger Stobbe,
162@end tex
163@ifinfo
164Ruediger Stobbe,
165@end ifinfo
166and
167Tim Wichmann.
168
169@sc{Singular} libraries have furthermore been contributed by
170Wolfram Decker,
171Christian Gorzel,
172Agnes Eileen Heydtmann,
173Ulrich Klein,
174Martin Lamm,
175and
176Bernd Martin.
177
178We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by
179the Volkswagen-Stiftung,
180the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
181and the Stiftung
182@ifinfo
183fuer
184@end ifinfo
185@tex
186f\"ur
187@end tex
188Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
189to the
190@sc{Singular} project.
191
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