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*                                                                        *
*  The Why platform for program certification                            *
*                                                                        *
*  Copyright (C) 2002-2014                                               *
*                                                                        *
*    Jean-Christophe FILLIATRE, CNRS & Univ. Paris-sud                   *
*    Claude MARCHE, INRIA & Univ. Paris-sud                              *
*    Yannick MOY, Univ. Paris-sud                                        *
*    Romain BARDOU, Univ. Paris-sud                                      *
*                                                                        *
*  Secondary contributors:                                               *
*                                                                        *
*    Thierry HUBERT, Univ. Paris-sud  (former Caduceus front-end)        *
*    Nicolas ROUSSET, Univ. Paris-sud (on Jessie & Krakatoa)             *
*    Ali AYAD, CNRS & CEA Saclay      (floating-point support)           *
*    Sylvie BOLDO, INRIA              (floating-point support)           *
*    Jean-Francois COUCHOT, INRIA     (sort encodings, hyps pruning)     *
*    Mehdi DOGGUY, Univ. Paris-sud    (Why GUI)                          *
*                                                                        *
*  This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or        *
*  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public            *
*  License version 2.1, with the special exception on linking            *
*  described in file LICENSE.                                            *
*                                                                        *
*  This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,      *
*  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
*  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.                  *
*                                                                        *
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Why is a certification tool.  It takes annotated programs as input and
outputs proof obligations for the proof assistants PVS and Coq.


DOCUMENTATION
=============

The documentation (a  tutorial and a reference manual)  is enclosed in
the subdirectory doc/.

Various examples can be found in the subdirectory examples/.

Mailing lists: there exist two mailing lists for Why and Caduceus
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or	caduceus-request@serveur-listes.lri.fr

with "subscribe your@email" in the mail body. These lists are mainly
used to announce the releases of Why and Caduceus. Emails can be sent
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COPYRIGHT
=========

This program is distributed under the GNU GPL. 
See the enclosed file COPYING.


INSTALLATION
============

See the enclosed file INSTALL.
