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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: </ul>
49:
50: <h3>Included library packages not covered by the GNU General Public
51: License</h3>
52:
53: <p>
54: <img src="lonIcons/tth.gif" align="right" alt="TtH logo" />
55: <a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/tthfunc.html">TtHfunc</a>
56: and TtMfunc by <a href="mailto:tth@hutchinson.belmont.ma.us">Ian
57: Hutchinson</a>. TtHfunc and TtMfunc (the "Code") may be compiled and
58: linked into binary executable programs or libraries distributed by
59: the Michigan State University (the "Licensee"), but any binaries so
60: distributed are hereby licensed only for use in the context of a
61: program or computational system for which the Licensee is the primary
62: author or distributor, and which performs substantial additional
63: tasks beyond the translation of (La)TeX into HTML. The C source of
64: the Code may not be distributed by the Licensee to any other parties
65: under any circumstances.</p>
66:
67: <p>
68: <pre>
69:
70: HTTPi is (C)1998-2001 Cameron Kaiser. All rights reserved.
71:
72: ** While HTTPi is free, it is NOT distributed under CopyLeft or GPL. Please **
73: ** read on to find out what the differences are. Licenses protect author **
74: ** rights -- please honour them, even with free software packages. **
75:
76: You can modify and tweak HTTPi to your heart's content. You don't need to
77: pay me for using it, and you don't need my permission to make changes (though
78: I or an authorised maintainer will be the only ones checking code back into
79: HTTPi's code base for authorised patches and new versions).
80:
81: HTTPi must be free, and any and all distributions and derivatives must
82: themselves be free. By free software I do not necessarily mean free in the
83: way that Richard Stallman of GNU fame might -- merely that distributions
84: be without cost. "Derivatives" shall constitute distributions with code
85: added or removed from the base distribution, or distributions that are
86: signficantly based on the source code (though may not necessarily include
87: the source code itself), in the Author's sole judgement. This means a C port
88: of HTTPi is still a derivative, or a Win32 version, or whatever. You do not
89: have to provide source code, which is a deviation from GPL.
90:
91: You MAY NOT:
92:
93: * make changes and slap your copyright on the entire package. Your
94: copyright extends only to the changes you've made. My copyright,
95: and any copyrights asserted by HTTPi's contributors, remain.
96:
97: * supersede the license agreement here. You may not charge a fee for a
98: HTTPi distribution, for example. Derivatives count as distributions.
99: This license agreement, therefore, applies IN FULL to any
100: distribution or derivative work.
101:
102: The exception: you MAY include HTTPi as part of an operating system
103: distribution and sell that. Linux dists and FreeBSD dists are okay,
104: for example.
105:
106: You also MAY NOT place your derivative work under GPL, because that
107: is a different, though similar, licensing agreement, and the
108: License here does reflect constraints that are mutually exclusive.
109:
110: * make a distribution of HTTPi that does not include ALL files,
111: including this license, and ONLY these files. If not, it is a
112: derivative work, and you may NOT call it an official distribution.
113:
114: * make or distribute a distribution of HTTPi that does not clearly
115: state the copyright (i.e.
116:
117: Contains or is based on the HTTPi web server
118: (C)1998-2001 Cameron Kaiser. All rights reserved.
119: http://httpi.floodgap.com/
120:
121: would be just about perfect), or make or distribute a derivative of
122: HTTPi that does not clearly state the copyright.
123:
124: You MUST:
125:
126: * copyright your derivative works. You may not make them public domain.
127:
128: * include this LICENSE agreement in any and all derivative
129: works you create, as either a separate file or part of your
130: non-mutually exclusive license (that is, does not conflict
131: with these terms).
132:
133: * absolve the programmers of HTTPi (including yours truly :-) and
134: any contributors) of any liability, real or imagined, and certify
135: that you are using this program AT YOUR OWN RISK. While the
136: programmers shall endeavour to make HTTPi as bug-free as possible,
137: entomological phenomena can and do occur. Such is life.
138:
139: If you make a derivative work of HTTPi, you MAY decide that you
140: wish to offer warranty support. You may do so, but your doing so
141: does in no way make me, the programmers of HTTPi, or anyone else
142: liable for the fulfillment of your warranty, and you and the users
143: of your derivative work must agree to hold us legally blameless
144: under ALL circumstances. (Remember, no mutually exclusive license
145: terms in your derivative works, right?)
146:
147: Your usage of this program constitutes your binding acceptance of these
148: terms. Don't even think about starting HTTPi up on your system if you don't
149: agree to follow the terms detailed in this license IN THEIR ENTIRETY. Don't
150: even think about modifying it, patching it or distributing it if you don't,
151: either. Exceptions to these restrictions must be obtained from me, the
152: copyright holder, IN WRITING.
153:
154: I reserve the right to interpret this document, and I also reserve the right
155: to make license changes without notice effective on issue date. All legal
156: issues shall be dealt with in accordance with the State of California, United
157: States of America.
158:
159: Other than that, have a blast! Keep software free.
160:
161: Revised 12/24/2000
162:
163: </pre>
164: </p>
165:
166: <p>The
167: <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>.
168: </p>
169: <h3>History</h3>
170:
171: <p>Based on the CAPA and Lecture<i>Online</i> software systems developed at
172: Michigan State University.</p>
173:
174: <p><img src="lonIcons/capapanel.gif" width="156" height="100" align="bottom"
175: alt="CAPA logo" />
176: <img src="lonIcons/lolpanel.gif" width="121" height="100" align="bottom"
177: alt="LectureOnline logo" />
178: </p>
179:
180: <h3><img src="lonDomLogos/msu.gif"
181: align="right" alt="Michigan State University logo" />Support</h3>
182:
183: <p>Development of LON-CAPA is sponsored by Michigan State
184: University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Simon Fraser University.</p>
185:
186: <p>
187: Additional support by the National Science Foundation under
188: <a href="https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0085921">NSF
189: ITR 85921</a>. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or
190: recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
191: and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science
192: Foundation.</p>
193:
194: <p>Contributing support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
195: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.</p>
196:
197: <h3>Code Contributors to Date</h3>
198:
199: <p>Guy Albertelli II, Guy Askenazi, Ray Batchelor,
200: Richard Banghart, Felicia Berryman, Stefan Bisitz, Jeremy Bowers, Phil Fazio, Ron Fox,
201: Matthew Hall, Harsha Jagasia, Robert McQueen, Gerd Kortemeyer,
202: Mark Lucas, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli,
203: Hon-Kie Ng, Stuart Raeburn, Peter Riegler,
204: Alexander Sakharuk, Jason Stredwick,
205: Martin Siegert, Joshua Tacey, Yihjia Tsai, Benjamin Tyszka, Angela VanDuinen, Suzanne Webb, Jay-Lynn Williams,
206: and others.</p>
207:
208: <h3>Translations By</h3>
209: <ul>
210: <li>Arabic: Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli</li>
211: <li>French: Chaden Djalali</li>
212: <li>German: Stefan Bisitz, Gerd Kortemeyer </li>
213: <li>Japanese: Minoru Akiyama </li>
214: <li>Persian: Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli </li>
215: <li>Portugese: Ricardo Kulzer, Emerson Cruz</li>
216: <li>Russian: Alex Sakharuk</li>
217: <li>Spanish: Ruben Martin</li>
218: <li>Turkish: Gunay Bayrak</li>
219: </ul>
220:
221: <h3>Additional Contributors</h3>
222:
223: <p>Wolfgang Bauer, Walt Benenson, Ed Kashy, Jim Linnemann.</p>
224:
225: <p>
226: <a href="http://www.smete.org/">
227: <img src="lonIcons/SMETE_white.gif" border="0"
228: align="bottom" alt="SMETE logo" /></a>
229: <a href="http://www.nsdl.org/">
230: <img src="lonDomLogos/nsdl.gif" border="0"
231: align="bottom" alt="NSDL logo" /></a></p>
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