This is the Debian GNU/Linux ess package of Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS)
which provides a common, generic, and useful interface, through emacs,
to many statistical packages.

Upstream Authors: A.J. Rossini <rossini@stat.sc.edu>,
                  Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>,
                  Kurt Hornik <kurt.hornik@R-project.org>,
                  Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>,
                  Rodney A. Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>,
		  Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>

ESS has a home page at `http://ESS.R-project.org/'. It is free software
distributed under a GNU-style copyleft.

This package was initially debianized by Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> on
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:03:46 -0400.

As of May 2008, the package is maintained by a group of ESS and Debian
developers which can be reached at ess-debian@stat.math.ethz.ch.

Sources were downloaded from http://ESS.R-project.org/downloads/ess/ and
changes, typically only to files in the Debian/ directory are fully documented
in the file /usr/share/doc/ess/changelog.Debian.gz

Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Martin Maechler
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 A.J. Rossini
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Richard M. Heiberger
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Kurt Hornik
Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Rodney A. Sparapani
Copyright (C) 2002 - 2008 Stephen Eglen

License: GPL

Earlier copyrights apply to some of the emacs lisp sources files in
../lisp/. These authors have all transferred copyright to the ESS core team.

On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GNU General Public License (GPL) is
included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.