<chapter id="license"><title>License and Copyright</title>
<para>
Vis5D is copyright &copy; 1990-2000 by Bill Hibbard, Johan Kellum,
Brian Paul, Dave Santek, and Andre Battaiola.  Vis5d+ is also
copyright &copy; 2000 by Steven G. Johnson.  See the included
<filename>AUTHORS</filename> file for a complete list of contributors.
</para>

<para>
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.
</para>

<para>As a special exception to the terms of the GNU General Public
License, you are permitted to link Vis5D with (and distribute the
resulting source and executables) the LUI library (copyright by
Stellar Computer Inc. and licensed for distribution with Vis5D),
the McIDAS library, and/or the NetCDF library, where those
libraries are governed by the terms of their own licenses.
</para>

<para>
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.
</para>

<para>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA.  You can also read the <ulink
url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License
online</ulink> at the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU home
page</ulink>.
</para>
</chapter>