EMBOSS THANKS file

EMBOSS is a collaborative project, coordinated at the EBI, Hinxton.

In the past EMBOSS was coordinated at the Sanger Centre, Hinxton
(1996-2000) and at the HGMP/RFCGR, Hinxton (2000-2005).

Many people have further contributed to EMBOSS by reporting problems,
suggesting various improvements, or submitting actual code. Here is a
list of those people. Help us to keep this complete and free from
errors by mailing any changes to emboss-bug@emboss.open-bio.org

Peter Rice <pmr@ebi.ac.uk>
Ian Longden <ianl@inpharmatica.co.uk>
Alan Bleasby <ajb@ebi.ac.uk>
Jon Ison <jison@ebi.ac.uk>
Gary Williams <gwilliam@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
Ewan Birney <birney@ebi.ac.uk>
Bill Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu>
Thomas Laurent <thomas.laurent@uk.lionbioscience.com>
Michael Schuster <schuster@emb1.bcc.univie.ac.at>
Scott McMahan <smcmahan@wisc.edu>
Henrikki Almusa <henrikki.almusa@helsinki.fi>
Cedric Rossi <cedric@cedricrossi.com>

Regexp
======

The regular expression library is derived from the PCRE (Perl
Compatible Regular Expressions) library.

The regular expression functions were originally derived from Henry Spencer's
regexp library.

CII
===

Some of the suggestions and code examples from David Hanson's book
"C Interfaces and Implementations" are included in the AJAX library.
This library is available from http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/cii/
or ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/packages/cii/

The COPYRIGHT file in release 1.10 says:

> The author of this software is David R. Hanson.
> 
> Copyright (c) 1994,1995,1996 by David R. Hanson. All Rights Reserved.
> 
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
> purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is
> hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in all
> copies of any software that is or includes a copy or modification of
> this software and in all copies of the supporting documentation for
> such software.
> 
> THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
> WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, THE AUTHOR DOES MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR
> WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR
> ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> David Hanson / drh@cs.princeton.edu / http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~drh/
> Wed Apr 24 13:44:16 PDT 1996
> Mon Dec 12 15:58:13 EST 1994


Thanks to Michael Schmitz for varargs handling code for linux ppc.