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This directory contains a binary distribution of the
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University of Melbourne Mercury compiler, version <VERSION>,
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built on a `<FULLARCH>' system.
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The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright (C)
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1993-1998 The University of Melbourne. It is distributed under the
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terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for
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copying permission. The Mercury library and runtime (libmercury.* and
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libmer.*) are distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General
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Public License. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying permissions for
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those files. (If these licencing arrangements are unsatisfactory,
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please contact us! We are willing to come to alternative arrangements,
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if the need should arise.)
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This distribution also contains a slightly modified version of the
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conservative garbage collector distributed by Hans Boehm, version 4.13alpha2,
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which has the following copyright attached (taken from the README file
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of the garbage collector source):
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Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
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Copyright (c) 1991-1996 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1996-1998 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved.
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THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
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EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
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for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all
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copies. Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified
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code is granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a
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notice that the code was modified is included with the above
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copyright notice.
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A few files (config*) in the source and binary distributions are derived
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from code that is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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The files in the `samples' directory are either public domain, or
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distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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Some of the files in the `extras' subdirectory (which is now distributed
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separately in the `mercury-extras' package) have fairly restrictive
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copyright licences:
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The `Togl' library in extras/graphics/mtogl/togl.* is copyright by
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Brian Paul and Ben Bederson; see the file
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extras/graphics/mtogl/LICENSE.TOGL.
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The Tk files in extras/graphics/mtogl/tk.* are copyright
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by the Regents of the University of California,
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., and other parties.
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See the file extras/graphics/mtogl/LICENSE.TK.
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The CLP(R) v1.2 implementation in extras/clpr/clpr is copyright
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by IBM; see the file extras/clpr/clpr/README for details, in
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particular the RESEARCH SOFTWARE DISCLAIMER and USER AGREEMENT.
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THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
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EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. See the file COPYING.
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See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
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The installation process will install INFO, HTML, and DVI versions
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of the Mercury documentation in the following default locations:
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/usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/info,
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/usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/lib/mercury/html, and
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/usr/local/mercury-<VERSION>/lib/mercury/doc.
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For some small example Mercury programs, see the `samples' directory.
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There are also some more libraries and programs in the `extras' directory.
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For examples of larger programs, download the Mercury source distribution -
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the Mercury compiler and the Mercury profiler are written in Mercury.
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For more information about Mercury, see the Mercury WWW home page at
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<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/>, or send mail to mercury@cs.mu.oz.au.
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If you would like to join the Mercury mailing lists (there are two,
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mercury-users for general discussion, and mercury-announce for
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announcements), send mail with "subscribe" in the body to
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mercury-users-request@cs.mu.oz.au or mercury-announce-request@cs.mu.oz.au
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(respectively).
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Please send bug reports, enhancement requests, suggestions for improvements,
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and any other feedback to mercury-bugs@cs.mu.oz.au or mercury@cs.mu.oz.au.
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If you find something you don't like, please tell us.
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If you find something you do like, please tell the world!
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The Mercury binary and source distributions are available via anonymous
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ftp or WWW from the following locations:
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Australia:
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ftp://turiel.cs.mu.oz.au/pub/mercury/
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USA:
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ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/XSB/mercury/
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Europe:
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ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/Mercury/
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