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diff --git a/lynx_help/about_lynx.html b/lynx_help/about_lynx.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f97a75bd --- /dev/null +++ b/lynx_help/about_lynx.html @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>About Lynx</TITLE> +<LINK rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@nongnu.org"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +</HEAD> + +<BODY> +<blockquote> +[ <A HREF="lynx-dev.html">About Lynx-Dev</A> | +<A HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev/">Lynx-Dev Archives</A> ] +</blockquote> + +<h1><em>About Lynx</em></h1> + +Lynx is a fully-featured <em>World Wide Web</em> (<em>WWW</em>) browser +for users on Unix, VMS, and other platforms running cursor-addressable, +character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes vt100 terminals, +other character-cell displays, and vt100 emulators such as Kermit or +Procomm running on PCs or Macs. + +<P>For information on how to use Lynx see the +<A HREF="Lynx_users_guide.html">Lynx User's Guide</A>, or the +<A HREF="lynx_help_main.html">Lynx help files</A>. + +<H2><EM>Credits and Copyright</EM></H2> + +Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within +Academic Computing Services of <A +HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/">The University of Kansas</A>. + +<P>Lynx was originally developed by +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Lou.Montulli.html" +>Lou Montulli</A>, +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/" +>Michael Grobe</A>, +and <A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Charles.Rezac.html" +>Charles Rezac</A>. +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Garrett/Garrett_Arch_Blythe.html" +>Garrett Blythe</A> created +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_doslynx/doslynx.html">DosLynx</A> +and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Following the departures of +Lou and Garrett for positions at Netscape in the summer of 1994, +<EM>Craig Lavender</EM> provided support services for Lynx, and +<EM>Ravikumar Kolli</EM> for DosLynx. + +<P>Currently Lynx is being maintained and supported by members of the +Internet community coordinated via the +<A HREF="#lynx-dev_list"><EM>lynx-dev mailing list</EM></A>. + +<P>Lynx is derived from material copyrighted by the University of Kansas. +However most of the release (and corresponding copyright) +is the work of developers on the +<A HREF="#lynx-dev_list"><EM>lynx-dev mailing list</EM></A>. +It is distributed +<A HREF="COPYHEADER" +>without restrictions on usage or redistribution</A> +under the <A HREF="COPYING">GNU +General Public License (Version 2)</A>. + +<P>Lynx was built over an early version of the Common Code Library +developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code is copyrighted by CERN. +Lynx contains other sections of code that are copyrighted +by other institutions or individuals. +The Lynx copyright does not override or invalidate those copyrights. + +<P>Thanks to <A NAME="13" HREF="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" +>Tim Berners-Lee</A> and the other <A NAME="14" +HREF="http://www.w3.org/People.html">CERN World Wide +Web wizards</A> for the WWW client library code and all of their other +work on the WWW project, NCSA and the +<A HREF="http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html" +>Mosaic</A> developers, and to everyone out in netland who has +contributed to Lynx's development either directly (through comments +or bug reports) or indirectly (through inspiration and development of +other systems). + +<P>Also, special thanks go to <EM>Foteos Macrides</EM> who ported much of +Lynx to VMS and did much of it's development following Lou Montulli's +and Garrett Blythe's departures from the University of Kansas, and to +<EM>Earl Fogel</EM> of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl implemented +the hypertext engine HYPERREZ in the Unix environment. HYPERREZ was +developed by Niel Larson of Think.com and served as the model for +the early versions of Lynx which did not use the WWW libraries and +had their own hypertext format. + +<H2><A NAME="availability"><EM>Availability</EM></A></H2> + +<p>Information on obtaining the most current version of Lynx is +available via <a href="http://www.subir.com/lynx.html" +>Lynx links</a>. + +<H2><A NAME="lynx-dev_list"><EM>Mailing List</EM></A></H2> + +We have a listserv mailing list running for lynx development discussion. +If you are interested in joining the list, follow this <A +HREF="lynx-dev.html">link</A>. There also are links to <A +HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev/">archives</A> in html +format for this mailing list. + +</BODY> +</HTML> |