mercury/.README.in

This directory contains the source distribution for the University of Melbourne
Mercury compiler, version @VERSION@.

	The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright
	(C) 1993-2003 The University of Melbourne.  It is distributed
	under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  See the file
	COPYING for copying permission.

	The Mercury library and runtime (the files in the library and
	runtime subdirectories) are distributed under the terms of the
	GNU Library General Public License.  See the file COPYING.LIB for
	copying permissions for those files.

	If those licencing arrangements are not satisfactory, please
	contact us!  We are willing to offer alternative arrangements,
	if the need should arise.
	
The subdirectory `boehm_gc' contains a slightly modified copy of
version 5.0alpha3 of the conservative garbage collector distributed
by Hans Boehm:

	Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
	Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation.  All rights reserved.
	Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Silicon Graphics.  All rights reserved.
	Copyright (c) 1999 by Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved.

	THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
	EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

	Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program for any
	purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
	Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is
	granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a notice
	that the code was modified is included with the above copyright
	notice.

A few files (config.guess, config.sub) are derived from code that is
copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc, and are distributed
under the GNU General Public License version 2.

The program `texi2html' in the `doc' directory is copyright by CERN
and is distributed under the GNU General Public
License version 2:

	This program is the intellectual property of the European
	Laboratory for Particle Physics (known as CERN).  No guarantee
	whatsoever is provided by CERN.  No liability whatsoever is
	accepted for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from any
	defect or inaccuracy in this information or code.

The files in the `samples' directory are either public domain, or
distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Some of the files in the `extras' subdirectory (which is now distributed
separately in the `mercury-extras' package) have fairly restrictive
copyright licences:  

	The `Togl' library in extras/graphics/mtogl/togl.* is copyright by
	Brian Paul and Ben Bederson; see the file
	extras/graphics/mtogl/LICENSE.TOGL.

	The Tk files in extras/graphics/mtogl/tk.* are copyright
	by the Regents of the University of California,
	Sun Microsystems, Inc., and other parties. 
	See the file extras/graphics/mtogl/LICENSE.TK.

	The CLP(R) v1.2 implementation in extras/clpr/clpr is copyright
	by IBM; see the file extras/clpr/clpr/README for details, in
	particular the RESEARCH SOFTWARE DISCLAIMER and USER AGREEMENT.

THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.  See the file COPYING.

See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
But in some cases, additional steps may be needed for particular
operating systems or particular architectures, so first read the
README file for your particular platform, if there is one:

	README.AIX		RS/6000 systems running AIX
	README.FreeBSD		The FreeBSD version of BSD Unix on Intel x86
	README.HPUX		HPPA systems running HPUX
	README.IRIX-5		SGI IRIX version 5.x
	README.Linux		Linux on Intel x86
	README.Linux-Alpha	Linux on DEC Alpha
	README.Linux-PPC	Linux on PowerPC
	README.Linux-m68k	Linux on Motorola 68000
	README.MacOS		Apple PowerPC Mac systems running MacOS 10
	README.MS-Windows	Microsoft Windows
	README.OSF1		DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1 version 3.x
	README.Solaris		Solaris (SunOS) on SPARC or Intel x86.

The documentation sources are in the `doc' subdirectory.  The installation
process will install INFO, HTML, and DVI versions in the locations specified
in the file Mmake.common - by default these locations are
/usr/local/mercury-@VERSION@/info,
/usr/local/mercury-@VERSION@/lib/mercury/html,
and /usr/local/mercury-@VERSION@/lib/mercury/doc respectively.
The installation process will also install Unix-style man pages -
by default they will be installed in /usr/local/mercury-@VERSION@/man/man1.
The files RELEASE_NOTES, NEWS, HISTORY, LIMITATIONS, and BUGS
also contain useful information.  If you're interested in looking
at the source code, the file compiler/notes/compiler_design.html is
a good place to start.

The `samples' directory contains some example Mercury programs.
There are also some additional Mercury programs and libraries
in the `extras' directory.

For more information about Mercury, see the Mercury WWW home page at
<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/>, or send mail to mercury@cs.mu.oz.au.

If you would like to join the Mercury mailing lists (there are two,
mercury-users for general discussion, and mercury-announce for
announcements), send mail with "subscribe" in the body to
mercury-users-request@cs.mu.oz.au or mercury-announce-request@cs.mu.oz.au
(respectively).

Please send bug reports, enhancement requests, suggestions for improvements,
and any other feedback to mercury-bugs@cs.mu.oz.au or mercury@cs.mu.oz.au.
If you find something you don't like, please tell us.
If you find something you do like, please tell the world!

The Mercury distribution is available via anonymous ftp or WWW
from the following locations:

	Home site:
	    Australia:	ftp://ftp.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/pub/mercury/

	Mirrors:
	    Sweden:	ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/Mercury/
	    Greece:	ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/mercury/

	Other sites (these may be less complete and/or out-of-date):
	    USA:	ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/XSB/mercury/
	    USA:	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/mercury/
	    Sunsite also has many other mirrors, see
			http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html.