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- README file for PUNIMAX
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- PUNIMAX is a computer algebra system which runs in CLISP, a Common Lisp
- implementation by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll.
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- It is based on MAXIMA, a Common Lisp implementation due to William F.
- Schelter at Texas University, which itself is based on the original
- implementation of Macsyma at MIT.
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- This is *not* free software. Because the MIT Macsyma code is copyrighted.
- To use PUNIMAX or MAXIMA, you are required by US law to first obtain a
- license from D.O.E. or one of the commercial licensees, then use the ftp'able
- software as enhancements.
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- Licenses can be obtained from the ESTC, Argonne Ill. Currently their charge
- for 1 machine is $165 to universities; site licenses are also available.
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- Historically, this situation arose from disputes in the U.S. over the
- commercialization of partially-government-funded academic research.
- Various U.S. governmental orders in the mid-1980's affirmed the rights of
- universities to license such research results.
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- You can then get the PUNIMAX software via FTP from
- ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de : /pub/math/punimax/punimax.tar.z .
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- Bruno Haible
- haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
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