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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.


6) libsvm COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
-------------------------------

libsvm is Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-Jen Lin.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither name of copyright holders nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
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SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.


7) AUTHOR INFORMATION
---------------------

The Perl Algorithm::SVM module was originally written by Cory Spencer but is
currently maintained by Matthew Laird <matt@brinkman.mbb.sfu.ca> of the
Brinkman Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.

  http://www.pathogenomics.sfu.ca/brinkman

Any questions related to the underlying library, libsvm, should be directed 
to the authors of the libsvm package (Email contact: lincj@ccms.ntu.edu.tw). 
The libsvm homepage is currently located at:

  http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/


8) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-------------------

Thanks go to Chih-Jen Lin, one of the libsvm authors, for being particularly
helpful during the development process of this module.

As well to Dr. Alexander K. Seewald of Seewald Solutions for many bug fixes,
new test cases, and lowering the memory footprint by a factor of 20.  Thank
you very much!