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<h1><img src="lonIcons/lonlogos.gif" alt="Small LON-CAPA logo"
align="right" />About the
Learning<i>Online</i> Network with CAPA
(<a href="http://www.lon-capa.org/">LON-CAPA</a>)</h1>
<p>VERSION: <!-- VERSION --></p>
<p><font size="+2">Copyright Michigan State University Board of
Trustees</font></p>
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The LearningOnline Network with CAPA (LON-CAPA)
is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the <a href="gpl.txt">GNU General Public License</a> as published by
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
LON-CAPA 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 LON-CAPA; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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<h3>Included libraries and packages covered by GNU General or other
Public Licenses</h3>
<p><img src="http://www.linux.org/info/images/officialpenguin.gif"
alt="Penguin logo" align="right" />Powered
by Linux.</p>
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alt="Powered by Apache logo" align="bottom" />
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<p><img src="http://www.mysql.com/images/interface-logo.gif"
alt="MySQL interface logo" align="bottom" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.modperl.com/images/mod_perl.gif" align="bottom"
alt="mod_perl logo" /></p>
<p><img src="lonIcons/latex.gif" align="bottom" alt="LaTeX logo" /></p>
<ul>
<li>Math-Cephes<br />
Stephen Moshier, Randy Kobes</li>
<li>Math-Random<br />
John Venier</li>
<li>GD-Barcode<br />
Kawai Takanori</li>
<li>GD-Graph</li>
<li>GD-TextUtils</li>
<li>GD-Graph3d</li>
<li>GD<br />
Lincoln D. Stein</li>
<li>Algorithm-Diff<br />
Ned Konz</li>
<li>libwww-perl</li>
<li>HTML-Parser</li>
<li>MIME-Base64<br />
Gisle Aas</li>
<li>HTML-Tagset<br />
Sean M. Burke</li>
<li>HTML-Tree<br />
Gisle Aas, Sean M. Burke</li>
<li>IO-stringy</li>
<li>MIME-tools<br />
Eryq</li>
<li>MailTools</li>
<li>libnet</li>
<li>Net-PH</li>
<li>Net-SNPP</li>
<li>IO<br />
Graham Barr</li>
<li>Text-Query<br />
Eric Bohlman, Loic Dachary</li>
<li>Krb4<br />
Jeff Horwitz</li>
<li>Crypt-DES/IDEA<br />
Dave Paris</li>
<li>DBI<br />
Tim Bunce</li>
<li>Safe-Hole<br />
Sey Nakajima</li>
<li>Msql-Mysql-modules<br />
Jochen Wiedmann</li>
</ul>
<h3>Included library packages not covered by the GNU General Public
License</h3>
<p>
<img src="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/tth.gif" align="right"
alt="TtH logo" />
<a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/tthfunc.html">TtHfunc</a>
and TtMfunc by <a href="mailto:tth@hutchinson.belmont.ma.us">Ian
Hutchinson</a>. TtHfunc and TtMfunc (the "Code") may be compiled and
linked into binary executable programs or libraries distributed by
the Michigan State University (the "Licensee"), but any binaries so
distributed are hereby licensed only for use in the context of a
program or computational system for which the Licensee is the primary
author or distributor, and which performs substantial additional
tasks beyond the translation of (La)TeX into HTML. The C source of
the Code may not be distributed by the Licensee to any other parties
under any circumstances.</p>
<h3>History</h3>
<p>Based on the <a href="http://capa.msu.edu/">CAPA</a> and
<a href="http://www.lite.msu.edu/kortemeyer/lecture.html">Lecture<i>Online</i>
</a> software systems developed at Michigan State University.</p>
<p><img src="lonIcons/capapanel.gif" width="156" height="100" align="bottom"
alt="CAPA logo" />
<img src="lonIcons/lolpanel.gif" width="121" height="100" align="bottom"
alt="LectureOnline logo" />
</p>
<h3><img src="http://www.msu.edu/dig/gsg/11picaPositiveLogo.gif"
align="right" alt="Michigan State University logo" />Support</h3>
<p>Initial development of LON-CAPA was sponsored by Michigan State
University in the Laboratory for Instructional Technology in
Education.</p>
<p>
<img src="https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/icons/srchweb.gif" align="right"
alt="NSF icon" />Additional
support by the National Science Foundation under
<a href="https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0085921">NSF
ITR 85921</a>. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science
Foundation.</p>
<p>Contributing support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.</p>
<h3>Code Contributors to Date</h3>
<p>Guy Albertelli II, Jeremy Bowers, Ron Fox, Matthew Hall,
Scott Harrison, Harsha Jagasia, Robert McQueen, Gerd Kortemeyer,
Mark Lucas, Behrouz Minaei, Hon-Kie Ng, Alexander Sakharuk, Jason Stredwick,
Yihjia Tsai, Benjamin Tyszka</p>
<h3>Additional Contributors</h3>
<p>Wolfgang Bauer, Walt Benenson, Ed Kashy, Jim Linnemann.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.smete.org/">
<img src="lonIcons/SMETE_white.gif" width="241" height="81" border="0"
align="bottom" alt="SMETE logo" /></a></p>
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