Software and datasets to support 'Generalized Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape', 
by R. A. Rigby  and M. D. Stasinopoulos

    The datasets and software are provided in good faith, but none of
    the authors,  warrant their accuracy nor can be held responsible 
    for the consequences of their use.

This file is intended to clarify ownership and copyright: where
possible individual files also carry brief copyright notices. 


Copyrights
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File gamlss/doc/gamlss-manual.pdf is copyright (C) 2004 M. D. Stasinopoulos and R.A. Rigby 
                       and in no circumstances should be reproduced without the authors' permission

Our understanding is that the dataset files gamlss/data/*.rda are not copyright.


Licence
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    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program 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.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.


The file COPYING in the R top-level directory is a copy of the 'GNU
General Public License'.


d.stasinopoulos@londonmet.ac.uk
r.rigby@londonmet.ac.uk