README file for PUNIMAX


PUNIMAX is a computer algebra system which runs in CLISP, a Common Lisp
implementation by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll.

It is based on MAXIMA, a Common Lisp implementation due to William F.
Schelter at Texas University, which itself is based on the original
implementation of Macsyma at MIT.

This is *not* free software. Because the MIT Macsyma code is copyrighted.
To use PUNIMAX or MAXIMA, you are required by US law to first obtain a
license from D.O.E. or one of the commercial licensees, then use the ftp'able
software as enhancements.

Licenses can be obtained from the ESTC, Argonne Ill. Currently their charge
for 1 machine is $165 to universities; site licenses are also available.

Historically, this situation arose from disputes in the U.S. over the
commercialization of partially-government-funded academic research.
Various U.S. governmental orders in the mid-1980's affirmed the rights of
universities to license such research results.

You can then get the PUNIMAX software via FTP from
ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de : /pub/math/punimax/punimax.tar.z .

Bruno Haible
haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de