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9: <h1><img src="lonIcons/lonlogos.gif" alt="Small LON-CAPA logo"
10: align="right" />About the
11: Learning<i>Online</i> Network with CAPA
12: (<a href="http://www.lon-capa.org/">LON-CAPA</a>)</h1>
13: <p>VERSION: <!-- VERSION --></p>
14: <p><font size="+2">Copyright Michigan State University Board of
15: Trustees</font></p>
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18:
19: <pre>
20: The LearningOnline Network with CAPA (LON-CAPA)
21: is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>; you can redistribute it and/or modify
22: it under the terms of the <a href="gpl.txt">GNU General Public License</a> as published by
23: the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>; either version 2 of the License, or
24: (at your option) any later version.
25:
26: LON-CAPA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
27: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
28: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
29: GNU General Public License for more details.
30:
31: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
32: along with LON-CAPA; if not, write to the Free Software
33: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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35:
36: <h3>Included libraries and packages covered by GNU General or other
37: Public Licenses</h3>
38:
39: <ul>
40: <li>Powered by Linux.</li>
41: <li>Powered by Apache.</li>
42: <li>Powered by mod_perl.</li>
43: <li>Using MySQL.</li>
44: <li>Using LaTeX.</li>
45: <li>Using CPAN.</li>
46: <li>Using MAXIMA.</li>
47: <li>Using Dragmath.</li>
48: <li>Using CKeditor.</li>
49: <li>Using CodeMirror.</li>
50: <li>Using Daxe.</li>
51: </ul>
52:
53: <h3>Included library packages not covered by the GNU General Public
54: License</h3>
55:
56: <p>
57: <img src="lonIcons/tth.gif" align="right" alt="TtH logo" />
58: <a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/tthfunc.html">TtHfunc</a>
59: and TtMfunc by <a href="mailto:tth@hutchinson.belmont.ma.us">Ian
60: Hutchinson</a>. TtHfunc and TtMfunc (the "Code") may be compiled and
61: linked into binary executable programs or libraries distributed by
62: the Michigan State University (the "Licensee"), but any binaries so
63: distributed are hereby licensed only for use in the context of a
64: program or computational system for which the Licensee is the primary
65: author or distributor, and which performs substantial additional
66: tasks beyond the translation of (La)TeX into HTML. The C source of
67: the Code may not be distributed by the Licensee to any other parties
68: under any circumstances.</p>
69:
70: <p>The
71: <a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library">Tango icons</a> are covered by the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license</a>.
72: </p>
73: <h3>History</h3>
74:
75: <p>Based on the CAPA and Lecture<i>Online</i> software systems developed at
76: Michigan State University.</p>
77:
78: <p><img src="lonIcons/capapanel.gif" width="156" height="100" align="bottom"
79: alt="CAPA logo" />
80: <img src="lonIcons/lolpanel.gif" width="121" height="100" align="bottom"
81: alt="LectureOnline logo" />
82: </p>
83:
84: <h3><img src="lonDomLogos/msu.gif"
85: align="right" alt="Michigan State University logo" />Support</h3>
86:
87: <p>Development of LON-CAPA is sponsored by Michigan State
88: University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Simon Fraser University.</p>
89:
90: <p>
91: Additional support by the National Science Foundation under
92: <a href="https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0085921">NSF
93: ITR 85921</a>. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or
94: recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
95: and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science
96: Foundation.</p>
97:
98: <p>Contributing support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
99: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.</p>
100:
101: <h3>Code Contributors to Date</h3>
102:
103: <p>Guy Albertelli II, Guy Askenazi, Ray Batchelor,
104: Richard Banghart, Felicia Berryman, Stefan Bisitz, Jeremy Bowers, Stefan Dröschler, Phil Fazio, Ron Fox,
105: Robin Goltermann, Damien Guillaume, Matthew Hall, Harsha Jagasia, Gerd Kortemeyer,
106: James Laverty, Carl Lira,
107: Mark Lucas, Robert McQueen, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Corey Musolff,
108: Hon-Kie Ng, Stuart Raeburn, Peter Riegler,
109: Alexander Sakharuk, Jason Stredwick,
110: Martin Siegert, Joshua Tacey, Arne Tempelhof, Yihjia Tsai, Benjamin Tyszka, Angela VanDuinen, Suzanne Webb, Juliane Wenzel, Jay-Lynn Williams,
111: and others.</p>
112:
113: <h3>Translations By</h3>
114: <ul>
115: <li>Arabic: Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli</li>
116: <li>Chinese:Yunfeng Zhu</li>
117: <li>French: Chaden Djalali</li>
118: <li>German: Stefan Bisitz, Gerd Kortemeyer </li>
119: <li>Japanese: Minoru Akiyama </li>
120: <li>Persian: Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli </li>
121: <li>Portugese: Ricardo Kulzer, Emerson Cruz</li>
122: <li>Russian: Alexander Sakharuk</li>
123: <li>Spanish: Ruben Martin Diez, Juan Eduardo Ramirez</li>
124: <li>Turkish: Gunay Bayrak</li>
125: </ul>
126:
127: <h3>Additional Contributors</h3>
128:
129: <p>Wolfgang Bauer, Walt Benenson, Ed Kashy, Jim Linnemann.</p>
130:
131: <p>
132: <a href="http://www.smete.org/">
133: <img src="lonIcons/SMETE_white.gif" border="0"
134: align="bottom" alt="SMETE logo" /></a>
135: <a href="http://www.nsdl.org/">
136: <img src="lonDomLogos/nsdl.gif" border="0"
137: align="bottom" alt="NSDL logo" /></a></p>
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