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