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=== What is SciDAVis? ===
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SciDAVis is a free application for _Sci_entific _D_ata _A_nalysis and _Vis_ualization.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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A copy of this license is provided in the file gpl.txt.
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SciDAVis runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X;
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possibly also on other platforms like *BSD.
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http://scidavis.sourceforge.net
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The following people have written parts of the SciDAVis source code, ranging from a few lines to large chunks.
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In alphabetical order.
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The following people have written parts of the manual and/or other documentation.
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In alphabetical order.
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Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou
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The following people have contributed translations or parts thereof.
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In alphabetical order.
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Jose Antonio Lorenzo Fernandez,
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The following people have made installing SciDAVis easier by providing specialized binary packages.
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In alphabetical order.
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Burkhard Bunk (Debian),
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Yu-Hung Lien (Mac OS X),
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Mauricio Troviano (Windows installer)
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SciDAVis uses code from QtiPlot, which consisted (at the time of the fork, i.e. QtiPlot 0.9-rc2) of code by the following people:
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José Antonio Lorenzo Fernández,
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The SciDAVis manual is based on the QtiPlot manual, written by (in alphabetical order):
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Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou, Ion Vasilief
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[1] birth name: Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen
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=== Special Thanks ===
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We also want to acknowledge the people having helped us indirectly by contributing to the following
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fine pieces of software. In no particular order.
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Qt (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/credits.html),
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Qwt (http://qwt.sourceforge.net/#credits),
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Qwtplot3D (http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/),
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muParser (http://muparser.sourceforge.net/),
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Python (http://www.python.org/),
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liborigin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/),
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Vim (http://www.vim.org/thanks.php/),
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webgen (http://webgen.rubyforge.org/),
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Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org/),
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Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/),
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GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)
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... and many more we just forgot to mention.