--- Acknowledgements ----

GeoDa TM is built upon several open source libraries and source-code files.

GeoDa is the flagship program of the GeoDa Center, following a long line of software tools developed by Dr. Luc Anselin. It is designed to implement techniques for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) on lattice data (points and polygons). The free program provides a user friendly and graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality. The latest version contains several new features such as full space-time data support in all views, a new cartogram, a refined map movie, parallel coordinate plot, 3D visualization, conditional plots (and maps) and spatial regression.

Since its initial release in February 2003, GeoDa's user numbers have increased exponentially, as the chart and map of global users above shows. This includes lab users at universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Cornell. The user community and press embraced the program enthusiastically, calling it a "hugely important analytic tool," a "very fine piece of software," an "exciting development" and more.

--- Dependencies ----

Below is a list of some of these that we'd like to acknowledge.

GDAL Libraries, version 1.10
License: X/MIT style Open Source license 
Authors: many
Links: http://www.gdal.org/

Boost Libraries, version 1.53
License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0
Authors: many
Links: http://www.boost.org/
       http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt

Boost.Polygon Voronoi Library, Boost version 1.53
License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0
Author: Andrii Sydorchuk
Links: http://www.boost.org/
       http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt

wxWidgets Cross-Platform GUI Library, version 2.9.4
License: The wxWindows Library Licence
Authors: Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, and others
Links: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
       http://www.opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows.php

CLAPACK Linear Algebra Libraries, version 3.2.1
Authors: many
License: Custom by University of Tennessee
Links: http://www.netlib.org/clapack/
       http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.2/LICENSE

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Library, version 0.1
Note: Full source of 0.1 release included in kNN directory
Authors: Sunil Arya and David Mount
License: See kNN/AHH.h in included source files
Links: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/

FastArea.c++ source code
Note: We have based the source for functions findArea and
      ComputeArea2D in our file GenGeomAlgs.h from FastArea.c++
      in Journal of Graphics Tools, 7(2):9-13, 2002
Author: Daniel Sunday
License: unknown
Links: http://jgt.akpeters.com/papers/Sunday02/FastArea.html

logger.h source code
Author: Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki
Note: We have copied the source for logger.h and modified it slightly
      to work with wxString.
License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0
Links: http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1304

nullstream.h source code
Author: Maciej Sobczak
License: See logger.h in included source files
Links: http://www.msobczak.com/