=== What is SciDAVis? ===

SciDAVis is a free application for _Sci_entific _D_ata _A_nalysis and _Vis_ualization.


=== License ===

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or   
(at your option) any later version.                                 
                                                                    
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,     
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of      
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the       
GNU General Public License for more details.                        

A copy of this license is provided in the file gpl.txt.


=== Platforms ===

SciDAVis runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X; 
possibly also on other platforms like *BSD.


=== Installation ===

See INSTALL.html


=== Web site ===

http://scidavis.sourceforge.net


=== Authors ===

These are the people currently working on SciDAVis, in alphabetical order:
o Tilman Benkert[1] (thzs at gmx.net) - developer, project admin
o Knut Franke (knut.franke at gmx.de) - developer, project admin
o Roger Gadiou - documentation, screenshots

[1] birth name: Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen

=== Credits ===

The following people have written parts of SciDAVis, ranging from a few lines to large chunks.
In alphabetical order:

Tilman Benkert, Knut Franke

SciDAVis uses code from QtiPlot, which consisted (at the time of fork) of code by the following people:
In alphabetical order:

Shen Chen, Borries Demeler, Jose Antonio Lorenzo Fernandez, Knut Franke, Vasileios Gkanis,
Gudjon Gudjonsson, Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen, Alex Kargovsky, Michael Mac-Vicar,
Tomomasa Ohkubo, Aaron Van Tassle, Branimir Vasilic, Ion Vasilief, Vincent Wagelaar

The following people have written parts of the manual and/or other documentation.
In alphabetical order:

Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou, Ion Vasilief

The following people have contributed translations or parts thereof.
In alphabetical order:

Tilman Benkert, Markus Bongard, Tobias Burnus, Remy Claverie, f0ma, Jose Antonio Lorenzo Fernandez,
Daniel Klaer, Peter Landgren, Tomomasa Ohkubo,
Mikhail Shevyakov, Mauricio Troviano

We also want to acknowledge the people having helped us indirectly by contributing to the following
fine pieces of software. In no particular order:

Qt (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/credits.html),
Qwt (http://qwt.sourceforge.net/#credits),
Qwtplot3D (http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/),
muParser (http://muparser.sourceforge.net/),
Python (http://www.python.org/),
liborigin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/),
Vim (http://www.vim.org/thanks.php/),
webgen (http://webgen.rubyforge.org/),
Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org/),
Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/),
GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)

... and many more we just forgot to mention.
