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\Chapter{Copyright Notice}

Copyright {\copyright} (1987--2004) by the {\GAP} Group, 

incorporating the Copyright {\copyright} 1999, 2000  by
        School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences,
        University of St~Andrews,
        North Haugh, St~Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland

being the Copyright {\copyright} 1992 by
        Lehrstuhl D f{\accent127 u}r Mathematik, RWTH,
        52056 Aachen, Germany,
transferred to St~Andrews on July 21st, 1997.

except for files in the distribution, which have an explicit different
copyright statement. In particular, the copyright of packages distributed
with GAP is usually with the package authors or their institutions.

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{\GAP} is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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If you obtain {\GAP} please send us  a short notice to that effect, e.g.,
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used (see below for sample citation). Also   we would appreciate if you
could inform us  about such a paper.

Specifically, please refer to

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[GAP] The GAP Group, GAP --- Groups, Algorithms, and Programming,
      Version 4.4.5; 2005
      (http://www.gap-system.org)
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Of course we are interested in all of your modifications.  In  particular
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