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Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


Copyright:

- 1987-1988, 1991-1997, 2003-2018  Free Software Foundation
- 1992-2020  John W. Eaton
- 1993  Fook Fah Yap
- 1993  Friedrich Leisch
- 1993  Gerhard Kircher
- 1993  John C. Campbell
- 1993  Per Bothner
- 1993  R. Bruce Tenison
- 1993  Teresa Twaroch
- 1993, 1995  Auburn University
- 1993, 1995, 1998-2002, 2004, 2006-2007  A. Scottedward Hodel
- 1993, 1996-1999, 2001-2002, 2005-2006  Kurt Hornik
- 1993-1997  O. Weber
- 1993-1998  Karl Berry
- 1994  Castor Fu
- 1994  Mark Odegard
- 1994  Romolo Manfredini
- 1994, 2009  Anthony Richardson
- 1994-1995  David Clem
- 1994-1997  Frederick (Rick) A Niles
- 1995  Paul Eggert
- 1995  Thomas Baier
- 1995  Vinayak Dutt
- 1995, 1997  Klaus Gebhardt
- 1997  Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez
- 1997  Rex A. Dieter
- 1997, 1999-2000, 2008  Rolf Fabian
- 1997-1999, 2001-2003  Mumit Khan
- 1998  Eric Norum
- 1998  Philippe Defert
- 1998  Richard Allan Holcombe
- 1998  Roman Hodek
- 1998  Tomislav Goles
- 1998, 2000  Georg Thimm
- 1998, 2000  John Smith
- 1998-2000, 2002-2006, 2012  Andy Adler
- 1999  Daniel Calvelo
- 1999  Eduardo Gallestey
- 1999  Geoff Jacobsen
- 1999  James B. Rawlings
- 1999  James Macnicol
- 1999  Massimo Lorenzin
- 1999-2000  Joao Cardoso
- 1999-2000  Stephen Eglen
- 1999-2002  Ben Sapp
- 2000  Joerg Specht
- 2000  Marcus Brinkmann
- 2000  Michael Reifenberger
- 2000  Thomas Walter
- 2000, 2002, 2012  Steven G. Johnson
- 2000, 2002-2004  Teemu Ikonen
- 2000, 2003  Cyril Humbert
- 2000, 2003, 2005  Mats Jansson
- 2000, 2003, 2007-2008  Gabriele Pannocchia
- 2000, 2004, 2006  Etienne Grossmann
- 2000, 2005  James R. Van Zandt
- 2000-2001  Matthew W. Roberts
- 2000-2002  Cai Jianming
- 2000-2002, 2007-2011  Kai Habel
- 2000-2007  Paul Kienzle
- 2001  Albert Chin-A-Young
- 2001  Christoph Spiel
- 2001  David Livings
- 2001  Heinz Bauschke
- 2001  Ondrej Popp
- 2001  Ross Lippert
- 2001  Thomas Stuart
- 2001, 2005-2009, 2012-2016  Rafael Laboissiere
- 2001, 2007  Jean-Francois Cardoso
- 2001-2003  Python Software Foundation
- 2002  David Billinghurst
- 2002  Dirk Laurie
- 2002  JD Cole
- 2002  Jeff Cunningham
- 2002  Matt Tenny
- 2002  Nicholas Piper
- 2002  Nix
- 2002  Peter Van Wieren
- 2002, 2006-2009  Francesco Potortì
- 2002, 2017  Andreas Stahel
- 2002, 2017  Bill Lash
- 2002-2003  Dirk Eddelbuettel
- 2002-2003, 2007  Joseph P. Skudlarek
- 2002-2004  Per Persson
- 2003  Aaron A. King
- 2003  Danilo Piazzalunga
- 2003  David Castelow
- 2003  Duncan Temple Lang
- 2003  Eric S. Raymond
- 2003  Heine Kolltveit
- 2003  Lute Kamstra
- 2003  Melqart
- 2003  Richard Stallman
- 2003  Roger Banks
- 2003  Russell Standish
- 2003  Stefan Monnier
- 2003  Thorsten Ohl
- 2003, 2005  Arno J. Klaassen
- 2003, 2008, 2010-2011  Alois Schlögl
- 2003, 2008-2010, 2012, 2014-2015, 2018-2019  Doug Stewart
- 2003-2004  Al Niessner
- 2003-2004  Petter Risholm
- 2003-2007  Quentin H. Spencer
- 2003-2013, 2015  David Bateman
- 2004  Balint Reczey
- 2004  Claude Lacoursiere
- 2004  David Hoover
- 2004  Federico Zenith
- 2004  Fredrik Lingvall
- 2004  Glenn Golden
- 2004  Hans Ekkehard Plesser
- 2004  Heikki Junes
- 2004  Jakub Bogusz
- 2004  Martin Dalecki
- 2004  Oyvind Kristiansen
- 2004  Volker Kuhlmann
- 2004, 2007-2010  Shai Ayal
- 2004, 2011, 2015, 2018  Orion Poplawski
- 2004-2005  Stefan van der Walt
- 2004-2006  Keith Goodman
- 2004-2006, 2008, 2010-2012  Pascal A. Dupuis
- 2005  Antoine Moreau
- 2005  Benjamin Hall
- 2005  Clinton Chee
- 2005  Daniel
- 2005  Driss Ghaddab
- 2005  Erik de Castro Lopo
- 2005  Ivana Varekova
- 2005  Joel Andersson
- 2005  Julius Smith
- 2005  Kevin Ruland
- 2005  Ludwig Schwardt
- 2005  Miroslaw Kwasniak
- 2005  Mohamed Kamoun
- 2005  Nicolo' Giorgetti
- 2005  Orestes Mas
- 2005  Shan G. Smith
- 2005  Todd Neal
- 2005  Tom Holroyd
- 2005  Toni Saarela
- 2005  Walter Landry
- 2005  cctsim
- 2005, 2007  Michael Zeising
- 2005, 2007-2009, 2012-2018  Daniel J. Sebald
- 2005, 2010  Ben Barrowes
- 2005-2006  Jorge Barros de Abreu
- 2005-2006  William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno
- 2005-2006, 2008, 2012  Dmitri A. Sergatskov
- 2005-2008  Bill Denney
- 2005-2010  Søren Hauberg
- 2006  Atsushi Kajita
- 2006  Christopher Hulbert
- 2006  Don Bindner
- 2006  Geoffrey Knauth
- 2006  Henry Mollet
- 2006  Jim Peterson
- 2006  Kai Labusch
- 2006  Ken Kouno
- 2006  Larrie Carr
- 2006  Martin Costabel
- 2006  Stephen Fegan
- 2006  Yozo Hida
- 2006, 2011  Michael Creel
- 2006-2007  Arno Onken
- 2006-2007  Bob Weigel
- 2006-2007  Luis F. Ortiz
- 2006-2007, 2009  Olli Saarela
- 2006-2008  Juhani Saastamoinen
- 2006-2008, 2010  Kim Hansen
- 2006-2009  Alexander Barth
- 2006-2009  Thomas Treichl
- 2006-2009, 2011  Benjamin Lindner
- 2006-2011  Thomas Weber
- 2006-2015  Michael Goffioul
- 2007  Alex Zvoleff
- 2007  Alexander Klimov
- 2007  Aquil H. Abdullah
- 2007  Baylis Shanks
- 2007  Christian Cornelssen
- 2007  Christof Zeile
- 2007  Christoph Mayer
- 2007  Claudio Belotti
- 2007  D. Martin
- 2007  Donald Parsons
- 2007  Geordie McBain
- 2007  Jim Langston
- 2007  Kristan Onu
- 2007  Laurent Mazet
- 2007  Luther Tychonievich
- 2007  Marcus W. Reble
- 2007  Matthias Drochner
- 2007  Michael Weitzel
- 2007  Moritz Borgmann
- 2007  Peter A. Gustafson
- 2007  Sebastian Schubert
- 2007  Steve M. Robbins
- 2007  Steven Mestdagh
- 2007  Tarmigan Casebolt
- 2007  Thomas Kasper
- 2007  Ulrich Tipp
- 2007  Utkarsh Upadhyay
- 2007  Vittoria Rezzonico
- 2007  Zhi Wang
- 2007, 2009  Joel Keay
- 2007, 2009-2015, 2017-2018  Olaf Till
- 2007-2008  Muthiah Annamalai
- 2007-2009  Brian Gough
- 2007-2009  Jason Riedy
- 2007-2013, 2015-2019  Marco Caliari
- 2007-2013, 2018  John P. Swensen
- 2007-2016, 2018-2019  Carlo de Falco
- 2007-2016, 2019  Ben Abbott
- 2008  Emil Lucretiu
- 2008  G. (Gert) van Antwerpen
- 2008  James Packer
- 2008  Jarkko Kaleva
- 2008  Jonathan Stickel
- 2008  Julian Schnidder
- 2008  Julien Pommier
- 2008  Krzesimir Nowak
- 2008  Maciek Gajewski
- 2008  Mark van Rossum
- 2008  Martin Weiser
- 2008  Primozz Peterlin
- 2008  Richard Bovey
- 2008  Ryan Hinton
- 2008  Sebastien Loisel
- 2008  Tetsuro KURITA
- 2008  Thomas L. Scofield
- 2008  Timo Lindfors
- 2008, 2010  Brett Stewart
- 2008, 2010-2012  Konstantinos Poulios
- 2008, 2011, 2013-2019  Andreas Weber
- 2008, 2011-2012  Kris Thielemans
- 2008, 2018  Dave Goel
- 2008-2009  Ivan Sutoris
- 2008-2009  Radek Salac
- 2008-2010  Ryan Rusaw
- 2008-2010  VZLU Prague
- 2008-2011  Jaroslav Hajek
- 2008-2011  Thorsten Meyer
- 2008-2011, 2015-2016, 2018-2019  Tatsuro Matsuoka
- 2008-2013, 2018  Marco Atzeri
- 2008-2015, 2017  Michael D. Godfrey
- 2009  Aleksej Saushev
- 2009  Alexander Mamonov
- 2009  Ansgar Burchardt
- 2009  Aravindh Krishnamoorthy
- 2009  Bernard Desgraups
- 2009  Bertrand Roessli
- 2009  Carmine Paolino
- 2009  Carsten Clark
- 2009  Christophe Tournery
- 2009  Daniel Gualberto
- 2009  E. Joshua Rigler
- 2009  Eric Chassande-Mottin
- 2009  Frederick Umminger
- 2009  Joe Rothweiler
- 2009  Kacper Kowalik
- 2009  Kai NODA
- 2009  Kristian Rumberg
- 2009  Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
- 2009  Peter L. Søndergaard
- 2009  Peter O'Gorman
- 2009  Pieter Eendebak
- 2009  Rob Mahurin
- 2009  Robert Millan
- 2009  Stefan Hepp
- 2009  Steffen Groot
- 2009  Steven Verstoep
- 2009  Thomas D. Dean
- 2009, 2011  Lukas Reichlin
- 2009, 2011-2012  Robert T. Short
- 2009-2010, 2012  Martin Helm
- 2009-2011  David Grundberg
- 2009-2011  Petr Mikulik
- 2009-2020  Rik Wehbring
- 2010  Brad Froehle
- 2010  Christos Dimitrakakis
- 2010  Daisuke TAKAGO
- 2010  David Gesswein
- 2010  Gunnar Farnebäck
- 2010  Joshua Redstone
- 2010  Judd Storrs
- 2010  Jyh-Miin Lin
- 2010  Liam Groener
- 2010  Marc Vinyals
- 2010  Pedro Gonnet
- 2010  Peter van den Biggelaar
- 2010  Qianqian Fang
- 2010-2012  Iain Murray
- 2010-2017  Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
- 2011  Alexander Klein
- 2011  Andriy Shinkarchuck
- 2011  Andy Buckle
- 2011  David Finkel
- 2011  David Wells
- 2011  Fabian Deutsch
- 2011  Giles Anderson
- 2011  Hannes Müller
- 2011  John Bradshaw
- 2011  Karsten Trulsen
- 2011  Matthias Jüschke
- 2011  Patrick Häcker
- 2011  Paul Boven
- 2011  Richard Campbell
- 2011  Roman Belov
- 2011  Sean Young
- 2011  Vanya Sergeev
- 2011-2012  Fotios Kasolis
- 2011-2012  Jacob Dawid
- 2011-2012  Jarno Rajahalme
- 2011-2012  John Hunt
- 2011-2012, 2014, 2016  Daniel Kraft
- 2011-2013  Júlio Hoffimann Mendes
- 2011-2018  Carnë Draug
- 2011-2019  Philip Nienhuis
- 2011-2020  Torsten Lilge
- 2012  Alexander Graf
- 2012  Alexander Hansen
- 2012  Corbin Champion
- 2012  Elias Pipping
- 2012  Fabio Rossi
- 2012  Garrett G Euler
- 2012  Israel Herraiz
- 2012  Jen Stewart
- 2012  Melvin Robinson
- 2012  Miguel Bazdresch
- 2012  Nicholas Musolino
- 2012  Ronald van der Meer
- 2012  Ryan Starret
- 2012  Sergey Dudoladov
- 2012  Stefan Husmann
- 2012  Sunghyun Cho
- 2012  Vivek Dogra
- 2012, 2014-2019  Colin Macdonald
- 2012-2013  Axel Mathéi
- 2012-2013  Ed Meyer
- 2012-2013  Erik Kjellson
- 2012-2013  Max Brister
- 2012-2013  Muhali
- 2012-2013  Richard Crozier
- 2012-2013  Thorsten Liebig
- 2012-2016, 2018-2019  Juan Pablo Carbajal
- 2012-2019  Pantxo Diribarne
- 2012-2020  Mike Miller
- 2013  Adam H Aitkenhead
- 2013  Amod Mulay
- 2013  Andre da Costa Barros
- 2013  Andy Register
- 2013  Artem Krosheninnikov
- 2013  Arun Giridhar
- 2013  Ben Kurtz
- 2013  Carl Osterwisch
- 2013  Catalin Codreanu
- 2013  Clemens Buchacher
- 2013  Corey Thomasson
- 2013  Craig Hudson
- 2013  David Turner
- 2013  FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe
- 2013  Falk Tannhäuser
- 2013  Janne Olavi Paanajärvi
- 2013  Jens Restemeier
- 2013  Leopoldo Cerbaro
- 2013  Marco Cecchetti
- 2013  Patrick Noffke
- 2013  Risto Vanhanen
- 2013  Rüdiger Sonderfeld
- 2013  Serhiy Zahoriya
- 2013  Vytautas Jančauskas
- 2013, 2015-2019  Sébastien Villemot
- 2013, 2016  Sander van Rijn
- 2013, 2018  Valentin Ortega
- 2013-2014  Kyle Guinn
- 2013-2014  LYH
- 2013-2014  Markus Appel
- 2013-2014  Mike Sander
- 2013-2014  Philipp Kutin
- 2013-2014  PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
- 2013-2014, 2016-2017  Nir Krakauer
- 2013-2014, 2016-2019  Julien Bect
- 2013-2015  Stefan Mahr
- 2013-2015, 2018  Felipe G. Nievinski
- 2013-2019  Kai T. Ohlhus
- 2013-2020  John Donoghue
- 2014  Ahsan Ali Shahid
- 2014  Branden Archer
- 2014  Colin Foster
- 2014  David Spies
- 2014  Drew Abbot
- 2014  Edmund Grimley Evans
- 2014  Eduardo Ramos Fernández
- 2014  Endre Kozma
- 2014  Jason Alan Palmer
- 2014  Joachim Wiesemann
- 2014  Johannes Zarl
- 2014  José Vallet
- 2014  Lasse Schuirmann
- 2014  Marco Vitetta
- 2014  Marko Seric
- 2014  Markus Bergholz
- 2014  Nathan Podlich
- 2014  Pedro Angelo
- 2014  Pooja Rao
- 2014  Rolando Pereira
- 2014  Sergey Plotnikov
- 2014  Serviscope Minor
- 2014  Stefan Beller
- 2014  Vaibhav Gupta
- 2014  Willem Atsma
- 2014, 2019  Michael C. Grant
- 2014-2015  Allan Jacobs
- 2014-2016  Eugenio Gianniti
- 2014-2016  Stefan Miereis
- 2014-2016, 2018  Massimiliano Fasi
- 2015  Akira Noda
- 2015  Amro
- 2015  Armin Müller
- 2015  Bernardo Sulzbach
- 2015  Cillian O'Driscoll
- 2015  Claudius Zingerli
- 2015  Ederag
- 2015  Ethan Biery
- 2015  Ilya Kurdyukov
- 2015  Johannes Leuschner
- 2015  Ken Marek
- 2015  Michele Zaffalon
- 2015  Rafael Monteiro
- 2015  Sahil Badyal
- 2015  Yu Liu
- 2015, 2017  Michael Barnes
- 2015, 2017  Piotr Held
- 2015-2016  Dmitry Roshchin
- 2015-2016  Jacapo Corno
- 2015-2016  José Luis García Pallero
- 2015-2016  Oliver Heimlich
- 2015-2016, 2018  Sebastian Schöps
- 2015-2016, 2019  Hartmut Gimpel
- 2015-2017  Avinoam Kalma
- 2015-2017  Lachlan Andrew
- 2015-2019  Nicholas R. Jankowski
- 2016  Abhinav Tripathi
- 2016  Andrew Thornton
- 2016  Atri Bhattacharya
- 2016  Barbara Lócsi
- 2016  Damjan Angelovski
- 2016  Francesco Faccio
- 2016  Garrett Euler
- 2016  Joakim Andén
- 2016  NVS Abhilash
- 2016  Robert Jenssen
- 2016  Stephen Montgomery-Smith
- 2016-2017  Ernst Reissner
- 2016-2019  Lars Kindermann
- 2016-2019  Markus Mützel
- 2017  Brad Kennedy
- 2017  Georg Wiora
- 2017  Hugo Raguet
- 2017  Lasse Kliemann
- 2017  Richard Zweig
- 2017  Tejaswi D Prakash
- 2017  Victor Norton
- 2017-2019  Alexander Wilms
- 2017-2019  Guillaume Flandin
- 2017-2019  Michael Leitner
- 2017-2019  Michele Ginesi
- 2017-2019  Sahil Yadav
- 2018  Avlas
- 2018  Cristiano Dorigo
- 2018  Dildar Sk
- 2018  Gene Harvey
- 2018  Joe Winegarden
- 2018  Maor Shutman
- 2018  Ronny Standtke
- 2018  Stefan Schlögl
- 2018  Stevie Schraudner
- 2018-2019  A.R. Burgers
- 2018-2019  Andrew Janke
- 2018-2019  Jun Wang
- 2019  Anthony Morast
- 2019  Bill Greene
- 2019  Christian Himpe
- 2019  Daniel Davis
- 2019  Eddy Xiao
- 2019  Juho Iipponen
- 2019  Nguy?n Gia Phong
- 2019  Tomi Pannila
- 2019  William Greene
- 2019-2020  Markus Meisinger


See also the list of contributors in the Octave manual (the file
doc/interpreter/contributors.in in the sources).