                        SINGULAR version 3-1-0

                     University of Kaiserslautern

      Department of Mathematics and  Centre for Computer Algebra

           Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann

                        Copyright (C) 1986-2009



                               *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 or version 3 of the License).

Some single files have a copyright given within the file:
Singular/ndbm.* (BSD), kernel/htmlhelp.h (LGPL 2.1+)

The following software modules shipped 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, surfex, 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
COPYING which are distributed along with these packages.  (Since
version 3-0-3 of SINGULAR, all parts have GPL or LGPL as (one of) their
licences.)

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)

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

If you want to be informed of new releases,  please register 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               <singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de> with subject
line `register' and body containing the following data:      your name,
email address, organisation, country and platform(s).

For information on how to cite SINGULAR see
`http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html'.

You can also support SINGULAR by informing us about your result
obtained by using SINGULAR.

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

The latest information regarding the status of SINGULAR is always
available from `http://www.singular.uni-kl.de'.

Acknowledgements
================

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: Michael
Brickenstein, Wolfram Decker, Alexander Dreyer, Gert-Martin Greuel,
Anne Fru"hbis-Kru"ger, Viktor Levandovskyy, Oleksandr Motsak, Gerhard
Pfister, Hans Scho"nemann, Mathias Schulze, and Frank Seelisch.

Former members of the SINGULAR team are: Olaf Bachmann, Kai Kru"ger,
Christoph Lossen, Wolfgang Neumann, Markus Perling, Wilfred Pohl, Jens
Schmidt, Thomas Siebert, Ru"diger Stobbe, Eric Westenberger, Tim
Wichmann, and Oliver Wienand.

Further contributions to SINGULAR have been made by: Daniel Andres,
Thomas Bayer, Isabelle Bermejo, Markus Becker, Stanislav Bulygin,
Nadine Cremer, Michael Cuntz, Kai Dehmann, Marcin Dumnicki, Stephan
Endrass, Jose Ignacio Farran, I. Garcia-Marco, Vladimir Gerdt, Philippe
Gimenez, Christian Gorzel, Hubert Grassmann, Amir Hashemi, Fernando
Hernando, Agnes Heydtmann, Dietmar Hillebrand, Tobias Hirsch, Markus
Hochstetter, Manuel Kauers, Simon King, Anen Lakhal, Martin Lamm,
Santiago Laplagne, Gregoire Lecerf, Francisco Javier Lobillo, Christoph
Mang, Thomas Markwig, Bernd Martin, Michael Messollen, Andrea Mindnich,
Jorge Martin Morales, Thomas Nu"ssler, Tetyana Povalyaeva, Carlos
Rabelo, J.-J. Salazar-Gonzalez, Alfredo Sanchez-Navarro, Ivor Saynisch,
Kristina Schindelar, Silke Spang, Stefan Steidel, Henrik Strohmayer,
Christian Stussak, Imade Sulandra, Akira Suzuki, Christine Theis,
Enrique Tobis, Maryna Viazovska, Alberto Vigneron-Tenorio, Moritz Wenk,
Denis Yanovich, Oleksandr Iena.

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.

