From cdac81d9fbca145d12df1f7365882be2975cdda2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Bangerth
-These are the people who started and — initially — coded
-most parts of deal.II:
+The deal.II project was initially started by three members
+of the Numerical Methods group at the University of Heidelberg, Germany:
-They keep maintaining the library and hold the copyright. In order to get in
-contact with them, send email to authors at dealii.org.
+Wolfgang Bangerth and Guido Kanschat are the current maintainers of the
+library. In order to get in contact with them, send email to authors
+at dealii.org.
Many people have contributed to deal.II over the years; their work
- is greatly appreciated. The following people contributed major parts
+ Many people have contributed to deal.II over the years, some of them very
+ substantial parts of the library. Their work
+ is greatly appreciated: no open source project can survice without a
+ community. The following people contributed major parts
of the library (in alphabetical order):
deal.II is copyright of the
- deal.II authors, Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf
- Hartmann and Guido Kanschat. It is a joint effort of the three
- main authors and quite a number of deal.II authors, Wolfgang Bangerth
+ and Guido Kanschat. It is a joint effort of the principal
+ authors and quite a number of contributors. deal.II is
distributed under an OpenSource
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/license.html b/deal.II/doc/license.html
index f6efbff3c4..76267b7aa3 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/license.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/license.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
deal.II Credits
-The deal.II authors
@@ -42,14 +41,15 @@ most parts of deal.II:
deal.II contributors
-
-Copyright and License
For specific problems, send email to either - Wolfgang.Bangerth, Ralf.Hartmann, + Wolfgang.Bangerth, Guido.Kanschat, or simply authors at dealii.org.
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