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1. Preface
SINGULAR version 2-0-4
Department of Mathematics and Centre for Computer Algebra
Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann
Copyright © 1986-2003
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 of the License ); with the following additional restrictions (which override any conflicting restrictions in the GPL):
The following software used 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, 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 which are distributed along with these packages.
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.
Please register yourself 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).
If you use Singular or parts thereof in a project and/or publish results that were partly obtained using SINGULAR, we ask you to cite SINGULAR and inform us thereof – see http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html, for information on how to cite Singular.
Availability
The latest information about SINGULAR is always available from http://www.singular.uni-kl.de. The program SINGULAR and the above mentioned parts are available via anonymous ftp through the following addresses:
- GMP, libreadline
© Free Software Foundation
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu or its mirrors- MP
© Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University
http://www.symbolicnet.org/areas/protocols/mp.html- NTL
© Victor Shoup
ftp://www.shoup.net- Singular-Factory
© Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern:
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Factory- Singular-libfac
© Messollen, University of Saarbrücken:
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Libfac- SINGULAR binaries and sources
ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/ or via a WWW browser from http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/
- Cygwin
- Xemacs
Acknowledgements
The development of SINGULAR is directed and coordinated by Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans Schönemann.
Currently, the SINGULAR team has the following members: Olaf Bachmann, Anne Frübis-Krüger, Thomas Keilen, Kai Krüger, Christoph Lossen, Viktor Levandovskyy, Wilfred Pohl, Mathias Schulze, Eric Westenberger, and Tim Wichmann.
Past members of the SINGULAR team are: Hubert Grassmann, Wolfgang Neumann, Jens Schmidt, Rüdiger Stobbe.
Further contributions to SINGULAR were made by: Thomas Bayer, Isabelle Bermejo, Stephan Endraß, Jose Ignacio Farran Martin, Wolfram Decker, Philippe Gimenez, Christian Gorzel, Agnes Heydtmann, Dietmar Hillebrand, Tobias Hirsch, Martin Lamm, Bernd Martin, Michael Meßollen, Thomas Nüßler, Moritz Wenk.
We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Stiftung für Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz to the SINGULAR project.