VermelGen has been released under the GNU copyleft License. The copyright is held by Justin Couch and Cameron Gillies of The Virtual Light Company However there are parts of the code which are Copyright by Thomas Koch of GMD Germany. This specifically relates to parts of the tree display code (although not all of it, A good proportion has been either completely rewritten from scratch, or so heavily modified that the original Copyright on those sections of code have been negated). The file GNU.txt contains a copy of the GPL that this software is released as. The copyright for the code by Thomas Koch is copied below. The original of this license can be at: http://orgwis.gmd.de/~koch/Java/Applets/TreeTool/Source/Copyright.txt ----- Begin Copyright Note ----- All source code is protected by copyright to GMD (Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, FIT.CSCW, GMD Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany) but may be used without fee for academic and research purpose only. GMD GIVES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, FOR THE SOFTWARE AND/OR DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Sankt Augustin, Germany 1995. ----- End Copyright Notice ----- Justin Couch justin@vlc.com.au 4 Jan 1997