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<H2><A NAME="s7">7. Credit for MGR</A></H2>

<P>Stephen Uhler, with others working at Bellcore, was the original
designer and implementer of <B>MGR</B>, so Bellcore has copyrighted much
of the code and documentation for <B>MGR</B> under the following conditions.
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    * Permission is granted to copy or use this program, EXCEPT that it
    * may not be sold for profit, the copyright notice must be reproduced
    * on copies, and credit should be given to Bellcore where it is due.
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<P>One required showing of the copyright notice is the startup title screen.
<P>Other credits to:
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<LI>    Stephen Hawley for his wonderful icons.</LI>
<LI>    Tommy Frandsen for the VGA linux library.</LI>
<LI>    Tom Heller for his Gasblit library.</LI>
<LI>    Andrew Haylett for the Mouse driver code.</LI>
<LI>    Dan McCrackin for his gasblit->linux patches.</LI>
<LI>    Dave Gymer, dgymer@gdcarc.co.uk, for the Startrek effect fix.</LI>
<LI>    Alex Liu for first releasing a working Linux version of <B>MGR</B>.</LI>
<LI>    Lars Aronsson (aronsson@lysator.liu.se) for text2font and
an ISO8859-1 8-bit font.</LI>
<LI>    Harry Pulley (hcpiv@grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca,
hcpiv@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca) for the Coherent port.</LI>
<LI>    Vance Petree &amp; Grant Edwards &amp; Udo Munk for their work on Hercules.</LI>
<LI>    Udo Munk for his work on serial mouse initialization &amp; select.</LI>
<LI>    Norman Bartek &amp; Hal Snyder at Mark Williams Co.  for their help
with some bugs &amp; with Coherent device drivers.</LI>
<LI>    Extra thanks to Zeyd Ben Halim for lots of helpful patches,
especially the adaptation of selection.</LI>
<LI>    Bradley Bosch, brad@lachman.com, for lots of patches from his 3b1
port, which fix bugs and implement new and desirable features.</LI>
<LI>    Andrew Morton, applix@runxtsa.runx.oz.au, who first wrote the
cut-word code.</LI>
<LI>    Kapil Paranjape, kapil@motive.math.tifr.res.in, for the EGA
support.</LI>
<LI>    Michael Haardt for MOVIE support fixes, bug fixes, separation of the
libbitblit code into output drivers, expansion of the libmgr, and
origami folding of the code.</LI>
<LI>    Yossi Gil for many fonts.</LI>
<LI>    Carsten Emde, carsten@thlmak.pr.net.ch, for mphoon.</LI>
<LI>    Vincent Broman for middle mouse-button emulation, linting, Sun cgsix
support, VGA colormap acess, integration of the sunport code
into Haardt's layering scheme, font gathering, the screen saver,
and continued maintenance.</LI>
<LI>    Kenneth Almquist, ka@socrates.hr.att.com, for helpful bug reports.</LI>
<LI>    Tim Pierce, twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu, for the port to FreeBSD
2.0R with Trident VGA.</LI>
</UL>
<P>All bitmap fonts from any source are strictly public domain in the
USA.  The 583 fixed-width fonts supplied with <B>MGR</B> were obtained
from Uhler, the X distribution, Yossi Gil, and elsewhere.
The Hershey vector fonts and the code for rendering them
are probably freely redistributable.
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