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Description: XaoS, realtime, fractal, zoomer

# About XaoS

XaoS is free software. You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This also means that you may get sources and help improve XaoS through an open development process.

## Credits

(alphabetically)

Lucio Henrique de Araujo (lucio.matema@gmail.com)
  Brazilian/Portuguese translation
Samuel Bizien (samuel@bizien.info)
  Beryl fractal
Eric Courteau (ecourteau@cplus.fr)
  francais.cat (translation of tutorials)
Jean-Pierre Demailly (Jean-Pierre.Demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr)
  Updates for French translation
Radek Doulik (rodo@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
  TK interface, windowid patches
Martin Dozsa (madsoft@centrum.cz)
  cs.po (Czech translation of menus)
Arpad Fekete
  Some new fractals, and the 'More formulae' menu
Zelia Maria Horta Garcia (zeliagarcia@seed.pr.gov.br)
  Brazilian/Portuguese translation
Tim Goodwin (tgoodwin@cygnus.co.uk)
  english.cat corrections
Ben Hines
  autoconf suggestions, Mac OS X port
Jan Hubicka (jh@ucw.cz)
  Zooming routines, ugly interface, palettes, drivers, autopilot, filters, documentation, tutorials etc.
Jens Kilian (jjk@acm.org)
  BeOS driver, deutsch.cat
Thomas A. K. Kjaer (takjaer@imv.aau.dk)
  OS/2 ports (320x200 graphics and AA-lib)
Zoltan Kovacs (kovzol@math.u-szeged.hu)
  Internationalization, Hungarian translations, finalizing version 3.1, bug fixes, web design, current maintainer
Zsigmond Kovacs (kovzsi@gmail.com)
  Fractal examples
J.B. Langston III (jb-langston@austin.rr.com)
  Native Mac OS X port (from version 3.2.2); web redesign; co-maintainer
Andreas Madritsch (amadritsch@datacomm.ch)
  New fractal types, bailout, many fixes
Mateusz Malczak (xaos@malczak.info)
  User formula evaluation library
Giorgio Marazzi (gmarazzi@vtr.net)
  Improvements and fixes for espanhol.cat
Thomas Marsh (thomas.marsh2@gmail.com)
  First zoomer, formulae, planes, X11 driver, inversions, many ideas
Dominic Mazzoni (dmazzoni@cs.cmu.edu)
  Macintosh port (version 2.0)
David Meleedy
  Grammatical and spelling fixed version of `xaos.6`
Paul Nasca (zynaddsubfx@yahoo.com)
  Ministatus improvement
Nix (nix@esperi.demon.co.uk)
  Grammatical and spelling fixed version of `xaos.hlp` and other files
Terje Pedersen (terjepe@login.eunet.no)
  Amiga port
Cesar Perez (oroz@users.sourceforge.net)
  Spanish translations
Fabrice Premel (premelfa@etu.utc.fr)
  Periodicity checking
Jan Olderdissen (jan@olderdissen.com)
  Win32 port
Ilinca Sitaru (ilinca.sitaru@gmail.com)
  Romanian translation
Daniel Skarda
  Fractal examples
Andrew Stone (Stone Design - www.stone.com)
  Videator Support, Cocoa improvements, performance mode, bug fixes
Marton Torok (marton.torok@gmail.com)
  Small fixes for pipes
Pavel Tzekov (paveltz@csoft.bg)
  Win32 support
Charles Vidal
  Tcl/Tk interface
Tapio K. Vocaldo (taps@rmx.com)
  Macintosh port
Tormod Volden
  Fixes for X11 driver to improve compatability with Xorg, XScreenSaver, Beryl and Compiz
Philippe Wautelet (p.wautelet@fractalzone.be)
  Bug fixes for version 3.1.1, French translation, gcc 4.0 fixes
Sergio Zanchetta
  Italian translation

## Included Software

XaoS uses the following libraries. These libraries may be included with some binary distributions of XaoS.

gettext 0.17
Website: `http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/`
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later (http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU Scientific Library 1.11
Website: `http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/`
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 The GSL Team.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later (http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

libpng 1.2.25
Website: `http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html`
Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Andreas Dilger
Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42, Inc.