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SINGULAR version 2-0-4
University of Kaiserslautern <http://www.uni-kl.de/>
Department of Mathematics <http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/> and  Centre for Computer Algebra <http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/>
Authors: G.-M. Greuel <http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~greuel>, G. Pfister <http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~pfister>, H. Schoenemann <http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hannes>

Copyright (C) 1986-2003


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 of the License );
with the following additional restrictions (which override any conflicting
restrictions in the GPL):

The following software used with 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.

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 GPL <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>)

Please send any comments or bug reports to
<mailto:singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.

Please register yourself as a SINGULAR user by using the
registration form on the SINGULAR homepage
              <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
              <mailto:singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
with subject line register and body containing the following data:
     your name, email address, organisation, country and platform(s).


If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish
results that were partly obtained using SINGULAR, we ask you to
cite SINGULAR and inform us thereof - see
<http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html>,
for information on how to cite Singular.

Availability
============

The latest information about SINGULAR is always available from
<http://www.singular.uni-kl.de>.
The program SINGULAR and the above mentioned parts are available via
anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
GMP, libreadline
(C) Free Software Foundation

 <ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu> or its mirrors
MP
(C) Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University

 <http://www.symbolicnet.org/areas/protocols/mp.html>
NTL
(C) Victor Shoup

 <ftp://www.shoup.net>
Singular-Factory
(C) Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:

 <ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Factory>
Singular-libfac
(C)  Messollen, University of Saarbru"cken:

 <ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Libfac>
SINGULAR binaries and sources
<ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/> or via a
WWW browser from
<http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/>
Cygwin
<http://www.cygwin.com/>
Xemacs
<http://www.xemacs.org>

Acknowledgements
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The development of SINGULAR is directed and coordinated by
Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans
Scho"nemann.


Currently, the SINGULAR team has the following members:
Olaf Bachmann,
Anne Fru"bis-Kru"ger,
Thomas Keilen,
Kai Kru"ger,
Christoph Lossen,
Viktor Levandovskyy,
Wilfred Pohl,
Mathias Schulze,
Eric Westenberger,
and
Tim Wichmann.

Past members of the SINGULAR team are:
Hubert Grassmann,
Wolfgang Neumann,
Jens Schmidt,
Ru"diger Stobbe.

Further contributions to SINGULAR were made by:
Thomas Bayer,
Isabelle Bermejo,
Stephan Endrass,
Jose Ignacio Farran Martin,
Wolfram Decker,
Philippe Gimenez,
Christian Gorzel,
Agnes Heydtmann,
Dietmar Hillebrand,
Tobias Hirsch,
Martin Lamm,
Bernd Martin,
Michael Messollen,
Thomas Nu"ssler,
Moritz Wenk.


We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by
the Volkswagen-Stiftung,
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
and the Stiftung fu"r Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
to the SINGULAR project.


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