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Copyright Notices

Alkaline is Copyright 1994-2000 Vestris Inc., Trident Chambers, P.O. Box 146, Wickhams Cay, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

Vestris Inc. gratefully acknowledges the use of the following third-party components:

  • MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, Copyright © RSA Data Security, Inc.

  • Regular Expression Engine, Copyright © 1986, 1993, 1995 by University of Toronto, written by Henry Spencer.

  • Simple XML Processing Library, JavaScript, Copyright © 1998 Jeremie

  • Morten's JavaScript Tree Menu, Copyright © 1998-2000 Morten Wang, TreeMenu.com

The documentation and the frequently asked questions are written using XEmacs in the SGML format. Both are converted to HTML and PDF using SgmlTools 2.0.2 , which is a bundle of DocBook DTD, DSSSL, Jade, TeX and Python scripts. Additional formatting and processing is done using Awk scripts by Marc Vuilleumier-Stuckelberg and David Clerc from Rembo Technology Sarl.

  • SgmlTools is Copyright © by Cees de Groot

  • DocBook is an SGML DTD maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of Oasis

  • Python is Copyright © 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam.

  • GNU Awk is Copyright © 1989, 1991-1997 Free Software Foundation.

  • TeX is Copyright © 1999 D.E. Knuth.

  • Kpathsea is copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  • Jade is a DSSSL implementation by James Clark

  • Web2c is written by Karl Berry, maintained by Olaf Weber

  • Document Style Semantics and Specification Language, DSSSL, is an ISO standard for formatting SGML and XML documents

  • OpenJade is a project undertaken by the DSSSL community to maintain and extend Jade.

Vestris Inc. also acknowledges all registered trademarks referred to in this documentation:

  • Microsoft, MS, MS-DOS, Win32, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

  • Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

  • OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

  • Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.

  • Unicode is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc.

  • TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

  • Arial is a registered trademark of The Monotype Corporation.

  • UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd.

  • All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.