<h1>License</h1>
- <p>
- <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is property of Wolfgang Bangerth and Guido Kanschat,
- referred to as <EM>deal.II authors</EM>. It is not public domain, even if
- the sources are freely accessible.
- </p>
-
<p>
<acronym>deal.II</acronym> is placed under an Open Source license,
in the sense advocated by the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org" target="_top">Open Source
Initiative</a>. You are thus free to copy and use it, and you have
- free access to all source codes.
+ free access to all source codes. However, <acronym>deal.II</acronym>
+ is not in the public domain, it is property of the
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> authors.
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institute has to undergo.
</p>
+ <p>
+ In this document, as well as in the program files, the term
+ <i>authors of <acronym>deal.II</acronym></i> generally refers to the
+ principle authors of the library. These are presently Wolfgang
+ Bangerth and Guido Kanschat.
+ </p>
+
+
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