Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine is Copyright 1994-1999 Vestris Inc., Geneva,
Switzerland. No commercial use may be made without prior written permission
of the copyright owner.

Alkaline was developed by Daniel Doubrovkine and Hassan Sultan,
students at the University of Geneva, Department of Computer Science,
Switzerland. Permission is granted to copy this software, to redistribute it
on a nonprofit basis, and to use it for any purpose, subject to
the following restrictions and understandings.

1. Any copy made of this software must include this copyright notice
in full.

2. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this
software shall duly acknowledge such use.
In particular, if you use Alkaline in any way on any WWW site under a
non-profit license, you should include a link to Alkaline home page at
http://www.vestris.com/alkaline .

3. The authors have made no warranty or representation that the
operation of this software will be error-free or suitable for any
application, and they are under under no obligation to provide any
services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise.  The software
is an experimental prototype offered on an as-is basis.

4. Any commercial use of this software will require a license.
Contact the Vestris Inc.:
        e-mail: admin@vestris.com
        http://www.vestris.com
	postal contact information 
	can be found at the above URL
        
