1. Conditions of use for LANCELOT:
   ------------------------------

It order to use the LANCELOT package, or any of its constituent parts,
a user must agree to abide by a set of conditions of use. The package is
freely available for ``Academic'' use. ``Academic'' use of the package 
is defined to be use of the package under the following conditions.
Any use of the package implies that these conditions have been understood,
and that the user agrees to abide by all the listed conditions.


1. The LANCELOT package and the LANCELOT, SBMIN and AUGLG names are a
copyright of the authors.

2. The package comes with no guarantee, expressed or implied, that it is
suitable for any  specific purpose nor that it  is  free of error.  It
should  not  be  relied on  as the  basis  to  solve  a  problem whose
incorrect solution could result in  injury to person or  property.  If
the package  or any of  its constituent  parts is   employed in such a
manner, it is at the  users' own  risk and the  authors disclaim  all
liability for such misuse.

3. The use of the package, or of any of its parts, in which the
principal or exclusive purpose is as a tool for research into, or the
production of, military weapons, or weapon systems, is prohibited.

4. The package is distributed ``as  is''.  In particular, no maintenance,
support, troubleshooting or subsequent upgrade is implied.

5. The use of LANCELOT, SBMIN or AUGLG must be acknowledged, in any
publication which contains results obtained with the package or any of
its parts.  A citation to the book 

  A. R. Conn, N. I. M. Gould and Ph. L. Toint,
  "LANCELOT: a Fortran package for large-scale nonlinear optimization",
  Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol. 17,
  Springer Verlag (Heidelberg, New York), 1992.
 
is suitable.

6. The package, or any modification thereof, may not be sold or
supplied, nor embedded within other software products which are
subsequently sold, or supplied, to a third party.

7. Users of the package are encouraged to send examples of the problems
they have solved using the package to its authors. These examples
may subsequently be passed into the public domain to allow others to
test and compare new and existing software.

8. It is the responsibility of the licensee to ensure that each user of
the package is aware of, and agrees to abide by, all the conditions
given above.


2. Commercial use of LANCELOT:
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Conditions for ``commercial'' (ie, non-``academic'') use of the LANCELOT
package or any of its constituent parts have to be negotiated separately 
with 

       Mrs. Monica Brown, 
       Agreements & Sales, Building R71, 
       Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 
       Chilton, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, England
       email: Monica.Brown@rl.ac.uk

to whom all commercial enquiries should be addressed

3. Authors' addresses:
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The addresses and email contact for the authors are:

       Dr A. R. Conn
       Mathematical Sciences Department
       IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
       P.O. Box 218
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
       email: arconn@watson.ibm.com

       Dr Nick Gould
       Department for Computation and Information
       Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
       Chilton, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, England
       email: N.Gould@rl.ac.uk

       Pr Ph. L. Toint
       Department of Mathematics,
       Facultes Universitaires ND de la Paix
       61, rue de Bruxelles
       B-5000 Namur, Belgium
       email: pht@math.fundp.ac.be