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NTL -- A Library for Doing Number Theory
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001  Victor Shoup

The most recent cersion of NTL is available at http://www.shoup.net

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This entire copyright notice should be placed in an appropriately
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The above terms apply to all of the software modules distributed with NTL,
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Note that the quad_float package is derived from the doubledouble package,
originally developed by Keith Briggs, and also licensed unger the GNU GPL.
The files quad_float.c and quad_float.h contain more detailed copyright
notices.

Note that the traditional long integer package used by NTL, lip.c, is derived
from---and represents an extensive modification of---
a package originally developed and copyrighted by Arjen Lenstra,
who has agreed to renounce any copyright claims on the particular 
version of the long integer package appearing in NTL, so that the
this package now is covered by the GNU GPL as well.

Note that the alternative long integer package used by NTL is GMP,
which is written by Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com>.
GMP is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Note that NTL makes use of the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message 
Digest Algorithm.

Note that prior to version 4.0, NTL was distributed under the following terms:
   NTL is freely available for research and educational purposes.
   I don't want to attach any legalistic licensing restrictions on
   users of NTL.
   However, NTL should not be linked in a commercial program
   (although using data in a commercial
   product produced by a program that used NTL is fine).

The hope is that the GNU GPL is actually less restrictive than these
older terms;  however, in any circumstances such that GNU GPL is more
restrictive, then the following rule is in force:
versions prior to 4.0 may continue to be used under the old terms,
but users of versions 4.0 or later should adhere to the terms of the GNU GPL.

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