<html><head><title>[ref] 76 Copyright Notice</title></head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> [<a href="../index.htm">Top</a>] [<a href = "chapters.htm">Up</a>] [<a href ="CHAP075.htm">Previous</a>] [<a href = "theindex.htm">Index</a>] <h1>76 Copyright Notice</h1><p> <p> Copyright © (1987--2004) by the <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> Group, <p> incorporating the Copyright © 1999, 2000 by School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland <p> being the Copyright © 1992 by Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik, RWTH, 52056 Aachen, Germany, transferred to St Andrews on July 21st, 1997. <p> except for files in the distribution, which have an explicit different copyright statement. In particular, the copyright of packages distributed with GAP is usually with the package authors or their institutions. <p> <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> 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; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For details, see the file <code>GPL</code> in the <code>etc</code> directory of the <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> distribution or see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html</a> <p> If you obtain <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> please send us a short notice to that effect, e.g., an e-mail message to the address <a href="mailto:support@gap-system.org">support@gap-system.org</a>, containing your full name and address. This allows us to keep track of the number of <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> users. <p> If you publish a mathematical result that was partly obtained using <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font>, please cite <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font>, just as you would cite another paper that you used (see below for sample citation). Also we would appreciate if you could inform us about such a paper. <p> Specifically, please refer to <p> <pre> [GAP] The GAP Group, GAP --- Groups, Algorithms, and Programming, Version 4.4.12; 2008 (http://www.gap-system.org) </pre> <p> <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> is distributed by us without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable state law. We distribute <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> <strong>as is</strong> without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. <p> The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. <p> In no case unless required by applicable law will we, and/or any other party who may modify and redistribute <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including lost profits, lost monies or other special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font>. <p> You are permitted to modify and redistribute <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font>, but you are not allowed to restrict further redistribution. That is to say proprietary modifications will not be allowed. We want all versions of <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> to remain free. <p> If you modify any part of <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP</font> and redistribute it, you must supply a <code>README</code> document. This should specify what modifications you made in which files. We do not want to take credit or be blamed for your modifications. <p> Of course we are interested in all of your modifications. In particular we would like to see bug-fixes, improvements and new functions. So again we would appreciate it if you would inform us about all modifications you make. <p> <p> [<a href="../index.htm">Top</a>] [<a href = "chapters.htm">Up</a>] [<a href ="CHAP075.htm">Previous</a>] [<a href = "theindex.htm">Index</a>] <P> <font face="Gill Sans,Helvetica,Arial">GAP 4 manual<br>December 2008 </font></body></html>