=== 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


=== Credits ===

--- Developers ---

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

Tilman Benkert[1], 
Knut Franke

--- Documentation ---

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

Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou

--- Translations ---

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

Tilman Benkert[1],
Markus Bongard,
Tobias Burnus,
Rémy Claverie,
f0ma,
Jose Antonio Lorenzo Fernandez,
Pavel Fric,
Jan Helebrant,
Daniel Klaer,
Peter Landgren,
Fellype do Nascimento,
Tomomasa Ohkubo,
Mikhail Shevyakov,
Mauricio Troviano

--- Packagers ---

The following people have made installing SciDAVis easier by providing specialized binary packages.
In alphabetical order.

Burkhard Bunk (Debian),
Quentin Denis (SUSE),
Yu-Hung Lien (Mac OS X),
Eric Tanguy (Fedora),
Mauricio Troviano (Windows installer)

--- QtiPlot ---

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:

Tilman Benkert[1],
Shen Chen,
Borries Demeler,
José Antonio Lorenzo Fernández,
Knut Franke,
Vasileios Gkanis,
Gudjon Gudjonsson,
Alex Kargovsky,
Michael Mac-Vicar,
Tomomasa Ohkubo,
Aaron Van Tassle,
Branimir Vasilic,
Ion Vasilief,
Vincent Wagelaar

The SciDAVis manual is based on the QtiPlot manual, written by (in alphabetical order):

Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou, Ion Vasilief

footnotes:
[1] birth name: Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen

=== Special Thanks ===

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.