This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU Scientific
Library (GSL). GNU GSL is being written by Mark Galassi (rosalia@cygnus.com)
and James Theiler (jt@nis.lanl.gov) with contributions from Jim Davies
(jimmyd@nis.lanl.gov), Brian Gough (bjg@network-theory.co.uk), Reid
Priedhorsky (rp@lanl.gov), Gerard Jungman (jungman@lanl.gov) and
Mike Booth <booth@planck.pha.jhu.edu>.

This package was first initially maintained by Michael Booth, while
James Troup and Roman Hodek made non-maintainer uploads.  The current
maintainer is Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.  The original sources
can be obtained at  
	http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gsl  
and at 
	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ 
As of Feb 2004, a current location can be accessed via
	http://sources.redhat.com/gsl

Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Brian Gough 
Portions Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Mark Galassi, Jim Davies, James Theiler, Reid Priedhorsky, Gerald Jungman, Michael Booth, Fabrice Rossi, Simone Piccardi, Carlo Perassi, Ho-Jin Dan, Szymon Jaroszewicz, Nicolas Darnis, Tuomo Keskitalo, Ivo Alxneit, Jason H. Stover, Patrick Alken
(see AUTHORS)

License: GPL

The GNU GSL documentation carries the following notice:

   The subroutines and source code in the GNU Scientific Library
   package are ``free''; this means that everyone is free to use them
   and free to redistribute them on a free basis.  The GNU Scientific
   Library-related programs are not in the public domain; they are
   copyrighted and there are restrictions on their distribution, but
   these restrictions are designed to permit everything that a good
   cooperating citizen would want to do.  What is not allowed is to
   try to prevent others from further sharing any version of these
   programs that they might get from you.

   Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
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   To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you
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   Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
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   they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems
   introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation.

   The precise conditions of the licenses for the programs currently
   being distributed that relate to GNU Scientific Library are nd in
   the General Public Licenses that accompany them.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License (version 3) can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

GSL versions prior to 1.10 were released under the GPL version 2.

Some files in utils/* are taken from other GNU projects and released
under the GNU Library General Public License (versions) for which a
complete text can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-3'.
