General Information
===================
See giac homepage:
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html (English)
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac_fr.html (French)
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac_es.html (Espanol)

LICENSES
========
* The giac library and the xcas program are released under the GPL license,
version 2 or above, as published by the Free Software Foundation, 
Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
(see the COPYING file for details).
The copyright holders are
(c) B. Parisse, Institut Fourier, 2002-2004
    R. De Graeve, Institut Fourier, 2002-2004
except for:
a/ The first GNUification of the giac package (automake,autoconf) is
(c) Richard Kreckel, Universitat Mainz, 10/2000.
b/ The very first version of the expression parser was a modification from 
GiNaC expression parser
GiNaC Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
c/ The mathml/svg conversion is (c) Jean-Pierre Branchard, 2003-2004.

* Documentation:
  The on-line help is included in xcas and giac/cas. The resposible
file is doc/aide_cas. It is released under the GPL version 2 or above
and is copyrighted by R. de Graeve, B. Parisse and M. Lopez de la Fuente.
  There is currently no English complete documentation. A tutorial
is available in French and English, released under the GPL version 2,
copyrighted by B. Parisse. A few information are also available in the
files giac_us.texinfo and giac_es.texinfo, both files are released under
the GPL version 2 or above and are (c) B. Parisse or M. Lopez de la Fuente.
  The French documentation is *not* released under the GPL. It is (c)
by Renee de Graeve. It can be freely distributed for non commercial purpose.
Other kind of redistributions require the consent of the copyright holder.

Installation
============
See the file "INSTALL" or look at the Install section of the info manual
(e.g. open doc/giac_us.info with emacs command C-u C-h i)
If you are really in a hurry: 
untar the archive, configure, make, make install, then run xcas

Credits:
========
  I'd like to thank:
- Renee de Graeve for her interest, beta testing and documentation writing.
- Jean-Pierre Branchard for the xcas online interface and mathml/svg support
- José Manrique Lopez de la Fuente for his interest, Spanish translation 
of the documentation and on-line help, and info about the FLVW library
- Carlos Enriqe Carleos Artime for doing the Debian packages and several
fixes in the giac build process.
- Jean-Yves Avenard for the mac OS X port
- Joris van der Hoeven for the texmacs/giac interface (and for texmacs!)
- the GiNaC crew for their interest, particulary R. Kreckel for doing 
the hard and annoying work of autoconfiguration/automake of giac
- All testers, especially (by alphabetic order) 
Sebastien Celles, Frederic Faure, Michele Gandit and her class, 
Francois Maltey, Bruno Patin, Juan Antonio Martinez Rojas, Nicolas Rosillo, 
Christianne Serret and her class (terminale S Crest), ... sorry for those 
I forgot!


