The "Coq proof assistant" was jointly developed by 
	
- INRIA Formel, Coq, LogiCal, ProVal, TypiCal, Marelle, pi.r2 projects
  (starting 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 university Paris Sud (since Sep. 1997),
- Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Polytechnique (LIX)
  associated to CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique (since Jan. 2003).
- Laboratoire PPS associated to CNRS and university Paris 7 (since Jan. 2009).

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 1999-2010,
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, 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/omega
  developed by Pierre Crégut (France Telecom R&D, 1996)
plugins/nsatz
  developed by Loïc Pottier (INRIA-Marelle, 2009)
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/Strings
  developed by Laurent Théry (INRIA-Lemme, 2003)
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, 2008)
ide/utils
  some files come from Maxence Guesdon's Cameleon tool 

Many discussions within the INRIA teams and labs taking part to the
development influenced the design of Coq especially with

  C. Auger, Y. Bertot, F. Blanqui, J. Courant, P. Courtieu, J. Duprat,
  S. Glondu, J. Goubault, J.-P. Jouannaud, S. Lescuyer, A. Mahboubi,
  C. Marché, A. Miquel, B. Monate, L. Pottier, Y. Régis-Gianas,
  P.-Y. Strub, L. Théry, B. Werner

The development of Coq also significantly benefited from feedback,
suggestions or short contributions from:

  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),
  F. Garillot, G. Gonthier (INRIA-MSR joint lab),
  INRIA-Gallium project, 
  the CS dept at Yale, the CIS dept at U. Penn, 
  the CSE dept at Harvard, the CS dept at Princeton

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)
  Pierre Boutillier (INRIA-PPS, 2010-now)
  Jacek Chrzaszcz (LRI, 1998-2003)
  Thierry Coquand (INRIA, 1985-1989)
  Pierre Corbineau (LRI, 2003-2005, Nijmegen, 2005-2008, Grenoble 1, 2008-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)
  Stéphane Glondu (INRIA-PPS, 2007-now)
  Benjamin Grégoire (INRIA, 2003-now)
  Hugo Herbelin (INRIA, 1996-now)
  Gérard Huet (INRIA, 1985-1997)
  Pierre Letouzey (LRI, 2000-2004, PPS, 2005-2008, INRIA-PPS, 2009-now)
  Patrick Loiseleur (Paris Sud, 1997-1999)
  Evgeny Makarov (INRIA, 2007)
  Pascal Manoury (INRIA, 1993)
  Micaela Mayero (INRIA, 1997-2002)
  Claude Marché (INRIA 2003-2004 & LRI, 2004)
  Benjamin Monate (LRI, 2003)
  César Muñoz (INRIA, 1994-1995)
  Chetan Murthy (INRIA, 1992-1994)
  Julien Narboux (INRIA, 2005-2006, Strasbourg, 2007-now)
  Jean-Marc Notin (CNRS, 2006-now)
  Catherine Parent-Vigouroux (ENS Lyon, 1992-1995)
  Christine Paulin-Mohring (INRIA, 1985-1989, ENS Lyon, 1989-1997, 
                            LRI, 1997-now)
  Pierre-Marie Pédrot (INRIA-PPS, 2011-now)
  Matthias Puech (INRIA-Bologna, 2008-now)
  Yann Régis-Gianas (INRIA-PPS, 2009-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)
  Enrico Tassi (INRIA, 2011-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
PPS refers to: Laboratoire Preuve, Programmation, Système, UMR 7126,
  CNRS and Université Paris 7
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