The "Coq proof assistant" was jointly developed by 
	
- INRIA Formel, Coq, LogiCal, ProVal, TypiCal projects (since 1985), 
- Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme (LIP) 
  associated to CNRS and ENS Lyon (Sep. 1989 to Aug. 1997),
- Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI)
  associated to CNRS and Paris Sud (since Sep. 1997),
- Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Polytechnique (since Jan. 2003)
  associated to CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique.

All files of the "Coq proof assistant" in directories or sub-directories of

  config dev ide interp kernel lib library parsing pretyping proofs
  scripts states tactics test-suite theories tools toplevel

are distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License 
Version 2.1 (see file LICENSE). These files are COPYRIGHT 1999-2008,
The Coq development team, CNRS, INRIA and Université Paris Sud.

Files from the directory doc are distributed as indicated in file doc/LICENCE.

The following directories contain independent contributions supported 
by the Coq development team. All of them are released under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1.

plugins/cc
  developed by Pierre Corbineau (ENS Cachan, 2001, LRI, 2001-2005, Radboud
  University at Nijmegen, 2005-2008)
plugins/correctness
  developed by Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (LRI, 1999-2001)
plugins/dp
  developed by Nicolas Ayache (LRI, 2005-2006) and Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
  (LRI, 2005-2008)
plugins/extraction
  developed by Pierre Letouzey (LRI, 2000-2004, PPS-Paris7, 2005-now)
plugins/field
  developed by David Delahaye and Micaela Mayero (INRIA-LogiCal, 2001)
plugins/firstorder 
  developed by Pierre Corbineau (LRI, 2003-2008)
plugins/fourier
  developed by Loïc Pottier (INRIA-Lemme, 2001)
plugins/funind
  developed by Pierre Courtieu (INRIA-Lemme, 2003-2004, CNAM, 2004-2008),
  Julien Forest (INRIA-Everest, 2006, CNAM, 2007-2008) 
  and Yves Bertot (INRIA-Marelle, 2005-2006)
plugins/interface
  developed by Yves Bertot with contributions from Loïc Pottier and
  Laurence Rideau as part of the Pcoq project (INRIA-Lemme, 1997-2006);
  extended by Lionel Mamane as part of the TeXMacs project (Radboud university
  at Nijmegen, 2007-2008)
plugins/omega
  developed by Pierre Crégut (France Telecom R&D, 1996)
plugins/ring
  developed by Samuel Boutin (INRIA-Coq, 1996) and Patrick 
  Loiseleur (LRI, 1997-1999)
plugins/romega
  developed by Pierre Crégut (France Telecom R&D, 2001-2004)
plugins/rtauto
  developed by Pierre Corbineau (LRI, 2005)
plugins/setoid_ring
  developed by Benjamin Grégoire (INRIA-Everest, 2005-2006), 
  Assia Mahboubi, Laurent Théry (INRIA-Marelle, 2006) 
  and Bruno Barras (INRIA LogiCal, 2005-2006),
plugins/subtac
  developed by Matthieu Sozeau (LRI, 2005-2008)
plugins/xml
  developed by Claudio Sacerdoti (Univ. Bologna, 2000-2005) 
  as part of the HELM and MoWGLI projects; extension by Cezary Kaliszyk as
  part of the ProofWeb project (Radbout University at Nijmegen, 2008)
plugins/micromega
  developed by Frédéric Besson (IRISA/INRIA, 2006-2008), with some 
  extensions by Evgeny Makarov (INRIA, 2007); sum-of-squares solver and 
  interface to the csdp solver uses code from John Harrison (University
  of Cambridge, 1998)
parsing/search.ml
  mainly developed by Yves Bertot (INRIA-Lemme, 2000-2004)
theories/ZArith
  started by Pierre Crégut (France Telecom R&D, 1996)
theories/IntMap
  developed by Jean Goubault-Larrecq (Dyade, 1998)
theories/Numbers/Cyclic
  developed by Benjamin Grégoire (INRIA-Everest, 2007), Laurent Théry
  (INRIA-Marelle, 2007-2008), Arnaud Spiwack (INRIA-LogiCal, 2007) and
  Pierre Letouzey (PPS-Paris 7, 2008)
theories/Strings
  developed by Laurent Théry (INRIA-Lemme, 2003)
ide/utils
  some files come from Maxence Guesdon's Cameleon tool 

Many discussions within the Démons team at LRI, and the
LogiCal/TypiCal projects influenced significantly the design of
components of Coq, especially with

  F. Blanqui, J. Courant, P. Courtieu, J. Duprat, S. Glondu, J. Goubault,
  A. Mahboubi, C. Marché, A. Miquel, B. Monate, P.-Y. Strub, B. Werner.

Intensive users suggested improvements of the system : 

  Y. Bertot, L. Pottier, L. Théry (INRIA-Lemme/Marelle projects),
  C. Alvarado, P. Crégut, J.-F. Monin (France Telecom R&D),
  P. Castéran (University Bordeaux 1),
  The Foundations Group (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands),
  Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis),
  G. Gonthier (INRIA-MSR joint lab), A. Charguéraud (INRIA-Gallium project).

The following people have contributed to the development of different versions 
of the Coq Proof assistant during the indicated time :

  Bruno Barras (INRIA, 1995-now)
  Jacek Chrzaszcz (LRI, 1998-2003)
  Thierry Coquand (INRIA, 1985-1989)
  Pierre Corbineau (LRI, 2003-now)
  Cristina Cornes (INRIA, 1993-1996)
  Yann Coscoy (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, 1995-1996)
  David Delahaye (INRIA, 1997-2002)
  Daniel de Rauglaudre (INRIA, 1996-1998)
  Olivier Desmettre (INRIA, 2001-2003)
  Gilles Dowek (INRIA, 1991-1994)
  Amy Felty (INRIA, 1993)
  Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (ENS Lyon, 1994-1997, LRI, 1997-now)
  Eduardo Giménez (ENS Lyon, 1993-1996, INRIA, 1997-1998)
  Benjamin Grégoire (INRIA, 2003-now)
  Hugo Herbelin (INRIA, 1996-now)
  Gérard Huet (INRIA, 1985-1997)
  Pierre Letouzey (LRI, 2000-2004 & PPS-Paris 7, 2005-now)
  Evgeny Makarov (INRIA, 2007)
  Pascal Manoury (INRIA, 1993)
  Micaela Mayero (INRIA, 1997-2002)
  Claude Marché (INRIA 2003-2004 & LRI, 2004-now)
  Benjamin Monate (LRI, 2003)
  César Muñoz (INRIA, 1994-1995)
  Chetan Murthy (INRIA, 1992-1994)
  Julien Narboux (INRIA, 2005-2006)
  Jean-Marc Notin (CNRS, 2006-now)
  Catherine Parent-Vigouroux (ENS Lyon, 1992-1995)
  Patrick Loiseleur (Paris Sud, 1997-1999)
  Christine Paulin-Mohring (INRIA, 1985-1989, ENS Lyon, 1989-1997, 
                            LRI, 1997-now)
  Clément Renard (INRIA, 2001-2004)
  Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (INRIA, 2004-2005)
  Amokrane Saïbi (INRIA, 1993-1998)
  Vincent Siles (INRIA, 2007)
  Élie Soubiran (INRIA, 2007-now)
  Matthieu Sozeau (INRIA, 2005-now)
  Arnaud Spiwack (INRIA, 2006-now)
  Benjamin Werner (INRIA, 1989-1994)

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INRIA refers to :
  Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
CNRS refers to :
  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
LRI refers to : Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, UMR 8623 
  CNRS and Université Paris-Sud
ENS Lyon refers to :
  Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
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