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33: <h1><img src="lonIcons/lonlogos.gif" alt="Small LON-CAPA logo"
34: align="right" />About the
35: Learning<i>Online</i> Network with CAPA
36: (<a href="http://www.lon-capa.org/">LON-CAPA</a>)</h1>
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40: <p style="font-size: x-large;">Copyright Michigan State University Board of
41: Trustees</p>
42:
43: <p> </p>
44:
45: <pre>
46: The LearningOnline Network with CAPA (LON-CAPA)
47: is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>; you can redistribute it and/or modify
48: it under the terms of the <a href="gpl.txt">GNU General Public License</a> as published by
49: the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>; either version 2 of the License, or
50: (at your option) any later version.
51:
52: LON-CAPA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
53: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
54: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
55: GNU General Public License for more details.
56:
57: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
58: along with LON-CAPA; if not, write to the Free Software
59: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
60: </pre>
61:
62: <h2>Included libraries and packages covered by GNU General or other
63: Public Licenses</h2>
64:
65: <ul>
66: <li>Powered by Linux.</li>
67: <li>Powered by Apache.</li>
68: <li>Powered by mod_perl.</li>
69: <li>Using MySQL.</li>
70: <li>Using LaTeX.</li>
71: <li>Using CPAN.</li>
72: <li>Using MAXIMA.</li>
73: <li>Using Dragmath.</li>
74: <li>Using CKeditor.</li>
75: <li>Using CodeMirror.</li>
76: <li>Using Daxe.</li>
77: </ul>
78:
79: <h2>Included library packages not covered by the GNU General Public
80: License</h2>
81:
82: <p>
83: <img src="lonIcons/tth.gif" align="right" alt="TtH logo" />
84: <a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/tthfunc.html">TtHfunc</a>
85: and TtMfunc by <a href="mailto:tth@hutchinson.belmont.ma.us">Ian
86: Hutchinson</a>. TtHfunc and TtMfunc (the "Code") may be compiled and
87: linked into binary executable programs or libraries distributed by
88: the Michigan State University (the "Licensee"), but any binaries so
89: distributed are hereby licensed only for use in the context of a
90: program or computational system for which the Licensee is the primary
91: author or distributor, and which performs substantial additional
92: tasks beyond the translation of (La)TeX into HTML. The C source of
93: the Code may not be distributed by the Licensee to any other parties
94: under any circumstances.</p>
95:
96: <p>The
97: <a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library">Tango icons</a> are covered by the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license</a>.
98: </p>
99: <h2>History</h2>
100:
101: <p>Based on the CAPA and Lecture<i>Online</i> software systems developed at
102: Michigan State University.</p>
103:
104: <p><img src="lonIcons/capapanel.gif" width="156" height="100" align="bottom"
105: alt="CAPA logo" />
106: <img src="lonIcons/lolpanel.gif" width="121" height="100" align="bottom"
107: alt="LectureOnline logo" />
108: </p>
109:
110: <h2><img src="lonDomLogos/msu.gif"
111: align="right" alt="Michigan State University logo" />Support</h2>
112:
113: <p>Development of LON-CAPA is sponsored by Michigan State
114: University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Simon Fraser University.</p>
115:
116: <p>
117: Additional support by the National Science Foundation under
118: <a href="https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0085921">NSF
119: ITR 85921</a>. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or
120: recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
121: and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science
122: Foundation.</p>
123:
124: <p>Contributing support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
125: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.</p>
126:
127: <h2>Code Contributors to Date</h2>
128:
129: <p>Guy Albertelli II, Guy Askenazi, Ray Batchelor,
130: Richard Banghart, Felicia Berryman, Stefan Bisitz, Jeremy Bowers, Stefan Dröschler, Phil Fazio, Ron Fox,
131: Robin Goltermann, Damien Guillaume, Matthew Hall, Harsha Jagasia, Gerd Kortemeyer,
132: James Laverty, Carl Lira,
133: Mark Lucas, Robert McQueen, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Corey Musolff,
134: Hon-Kie Ng, Stuart Raeburn, Peter Riegler,
135: Alexander Sakharuk, Jason Stredwick,
136: Martin Siegert, Joshua Tacey, Arne Tempelhof, Yihjia Tsai, Benjamin Tyszka, Angela VanDuinen, Suzanne Webb, Juliane Wenzel, Jay-Lynn Williams,
137: and others.</p>
138:
139: <h2>Translations By</h2>
140: <ul>
141: <li>Arabic: Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli</li>
142: <li>Chinese:Yunfeng Zhu</li>
143: <li>French: Chaden Djalali</li>
144: <li>German: Stefan Bisitz, Gerd Kortemeyer </li>
145: <li>Japanese: Minoru Akiyama </li>
146: <li>Persian: Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli </li>
147: <li>Portugese: Ricardo Kulzer, Emerson Cruz</li>
148: <li>Russian: Alexander Sakharuk</li>
149: <li>Spanish: Ruben Martin Diez, Juan Eduardo Ramirez</li>
150: <li>Turkish: Gunay Bayrak</li>
151: </ul>
152:
153: <h2>Additional Contributors</h2>
154:
155: <p>Wolfgang Bauer, Walt Benenson, Ed Kashy, Jim Linnemann.</p>
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159: <a href="http://www.smete.org/">
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162: <a href="http://www.nsdl.org/">
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