Gecode license and authors

# GECODE LICENSE AGREEMENT

This software and its documentation are copyrighted by the individual authors as listed in each file. All files, unless explicitly disclaimed in individual files, may be used according to the terms of the MIT license, which reads as follows:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

# Gecode authors

The following authors have contributed to the Gecode library and its documentation (in alphabetical order of firstname):

- Christian Schulte schul.nosp@m.te@g.nosp@m.ecode.nosp@m..org
- Christopher Mears chris.nosp@m..mea.nosp@m.rs@mo.nosp@m.nash.nosp@m..edu
- David Rijsman David.nosp@m..Rij.nosp@m.sman@.nosp@m.quin.nosp@m.tiq.c.nosp@m.om
- Denys Duchier denys.nosp@m..duc.nosp@m.hier@.nosp@m.univ.nosp@m.-orle.nosp@m.ans..nosp@m.fr
- Filip Konvicka filip.nosp@m..kon.nosp@m.vicka.nosp@m.@log.nosp@m.is.cz
- Gabor Szokoli szoko.nosp@m.li@g.nosp@m.ecode.nosp@m..org
- Gabriel Hjort Blindell gabri.nosp@m.el.h.nosp@m.jort..nosp@m.blin.nosp@m.dell@.nosp@m.gmai.nosp@m.l.com
- Gregory Crosswhite gcros.nosp@m.s@ph.nosp@m.ys.wa.nosp@m.shin.nosp@m.gton..nosp@m.edu
- Guido Tack tack@.nosp@m.geco.nosp@m.de.or.nosp@m.g
- Håkan Kjellerstrand hakan.nosp@m.k@bo.nosp@m.netma.nosp@m.il.c.nosp@m.om
- Joseph Scott josep.nosp@m.h.sc.nosp@m.ott@i.nosp@m.t.uu.nosp@m..se
- Kevin Leo kevin.nosp@m..leo.nosp@m.@mona.nosp@m.sh.e.nosp@m.du
- Linnea Ingmar linne.nosp@m.a.in.nosp@m.gmar@.nosp@m.hotm.nosp@m.ail.c.nosp@m.om
- Lubomir Moric lubom.nosp@m.ir.m.nosp@m.oric@.nosp@m.logi.nosp@m.s.cz
- Matthias Balzer matth.nosp@m.ias..nosp@m.balze.nosp@m.r@it.nosp@m.wm.fr.nosp@m.aunh.nosp@m.ofer..nosp@m.de
- Maxim Shishmarev maxim.nosp@m..shi.nosp@m.shmar.nosp@m.ev@m.nosp@m.onash.nosp@m..edu
- Mikael Lagerkvist lager.nosp@m.kvis.nosp@m.t@gma.nosp@m.il.c.nosp@m.om
- Patrick Pekczynski pekcz.nosp@m.ynsk.nosp@m.i@ps..nosp@m.uni-.nosp@m.sb.de
- Raphael Reischuk reisc.nosp@m.huk@.nosp@m.cs.un.nosp@m.i-sb.nosp@m..de
- Roberto Castañeda Lozano rcas@.nosp@m.kth..nosp@m.se
- Samuel Gagnon samue.nosp@m.l.ga.nosp@m.gnon9.nosp@m.2@gm.nosp@m.ail.c.nosp@m.om
- Stefano Gualandi stefa.nosp@m.no.g.nosp@m.ualan.nosp@m.di@g.nosp@m.mail..nosp@m.com
- Tias Guns tias..nosp@m.guns.nosp@m.@cs.k.nosp@m.uleu.nosp@m.ven.b.nosp@m.e
- Vincent Barichard Vince.nosp@m.nt.B.nosp@m.arich.nosp@m.ard@.nosp@m.univ-.nosp@m.ange.nosp@m.rs.fr

The above authors are grateful to the following people who have provided bugfixes:

- Alexander Samoilov
- David Rijsman
- Geoffrey Chu
- Grégoire Dooms
- Gustavo Gutierrez
- Olof Sivertsson
- Stefano Gualandi
- Zandra Norman

We are also grateful for our users reporting bugs and suggesting improvements.