CREDITS

		   Neper is copyright (C) 2003-2022

                             Romain Quey
                 <romain.quey at mines-stetienne.fr>

Code contributions to Neper have been provided by (in chronological order):
Kamel Ibn Hassen Derouiche (Cmake integration), Loic Renversade (tessellation
optimization and 2.5D meshing), Thierry Auger (MacOS port and process
management), Michael Burgardt (statistical distributions, PR #12), Xiao Shang
(autocompletion, PR #378).

Since version 4.0 (2020), Neper as a companion program, FEPX, developed by
Matthew Kasemer.

Thanks to Fabrice Barbe, who is at the origin of Neper and has provided many
ideas (2003-2010), and Paul Dawson, for boosting Neper's development
(2010-2011).

The muparser tree code (src/contrib/muparser), excluding the
CMakeLists.txt file, is copyright (C) 2011 Ingo Berg and licensed under
the MIT License.

The nanoflann tree code (src/contrib/nanoflann) is copyright (C) Marius Muja,
David G. Lowe and Jose Luis Blanco and licensed under the the BSD License.

The nlopt tree code (src/contrib/nlopt) is copyright (C) Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and and other contributors and licensed under the terms
provided in src/contrib/nlopt.

The openGJK tree code (src/contrib/openGJK) is copyright (C) Mattia Montanari
and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or
any later version.

The scotch tree code (src/contrib/scotch) is copyright (C)
2004,2007,2008,2010,2011 ENSEIRB, INRIA & CNRS and licensed under the terms of
the the CeCILL-C license under French law and abiding by the rules of
distribution of free software.

The tinycolormap tree code (src/contrib/tinycolormap) is copyright (C) 2018
Yuki Koyama and licensed under the terms provided in src/contrib/tinycolormap.

This version of Neper may use as a library: Gmsh, copyright (C)
1997-2014 by Christophe Geuzaine and Jean-François Remacle and
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2
or later, with an exception to allow for easier linking with external
libraries.  See the Gmsh code for more information.

This version of Neper may use as a library: Povray, licensed under the terms of
the GNU Affero General Public License.

Thanks to the following forks for punctual help: Christophe Geuzaine for
Gmsh; Francois Pellegrini for libScotch.

Thanks to Ling Li for help with the Abaqus output; Ehsan Ghazvinian for
help with the ply output.