Credits and Copyright
=====================

.. _label_for_citing_shark:

Citing Shark
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We kindly ask you to cite Shark in academic work as:

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	Christian Igel, Verena Heidrich-Meisner, and Tobias Glasmachers.
	`Shark <http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v9/igel08a.html>`_.
	Journal of Machine Learning Research 9, pp. 993-996, 2008

The article's bibtex entry reads: ::

	@Article{shark08,
		author = {Christian Igel and Verena Heidrich-Meisner and Tobias Glasmachers},
		title = {Shark},
		journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
		year = {2008},
		volume = {9},
		pages = {993-996}
	}

License
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The Shark library is made available under the
`GNU Lesser General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html>`_.

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Hosting institutions
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The Shark machine learning library is jointly maintained by researchers from

* `Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany <http://www.ini.rub.de/>`_
* `Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, Denmark <http://www.diku.dk/>`_



Present and previous contributors
----------------------------------

Shark is currently developed and maintained by the following people (in alphabetical order)::

	Asja Fischer, Tobias Glasmachers, Kasper Nybo Hansen,
	Christian Igel, Oswin Krause, Bill Li, Trinh Xuan Tuan,
	Matthias Tuma, Thomas Voss


The following people have been contributors to past versions of
Shark (in alphabetical order)::

	Rüdiger Alberts, Lukas Arnold, Thomas Bücher, Eduard Diner,
	Verena Heidrich-Meisner, Michael Hüsken, Martin Kreutz,
	Marc Nunkesser, Tatsuya Okabe, Stefan Roth, Pavel Saviankou,
	Bernhard Sendhoff, Peter Stagge, Thorsten Suttorp,
	Marc Toussaint, Björn Weghenkel, Stefan Wiegand, Aimin Zhou

Past and present supporters
---------------------------

The development of the Shark library is or has been supported by the following institutions or companies:

* `Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany <http://www.ini.rub.de/>`_
* `Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen, Denmark <http://www.diku.dk/>`_
* `nisys GmbH <http://www.nisys.de/>`_
* `Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU) <http://world.honda.com/group/HondaResearchInstituteEurope/>`_



Source code
+++++++++++

* Shark uses and links against parts of the `Boost software libraries <http://www.boost.org>`_.
  The Boost libraries are not shipped with Shark and have to be installed
  independently. The Boost libraries are available under the `Boost software
  license <http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt>`_.

* Shark relies on `CMake <http://www.cmake.org/>`_ as its build system.
  CMake is not included with Shark, but needs to be installed externally.
  However, CMake configuration files are provided with Shark for convenience.
  CMake is available  under the 3-clause (new/modified) `BSD license
  <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>`_.


Documentation
+++++++++++++
* Shark uses the `Doxygen documentation system <http://www.doxygen.org>`_.
  Doxygen is not included with Shark, but Doxygen configuration files are
  provided for convenience. Doxygen is available under the
  `GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>`_.
* Shark also uses the `Sphinx documentation system <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>`_.
  Sphinx is not included with Shark, but Sphinx configuration files are
  provided for convenience. Sphinx is available under the
  2-clause (simplified/Free) `BSD license
  <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>`_.
* The Shark documentation links between Sphinx and Doxygen using
  `Doxylink <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-doxylink>`_ written
  by Matt Williams and released under a 2-clause (simplified/Free) `BSD license
  <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>`_. Doxylink is not included
  in Shark, but the Shark documentation relies on Doxylink's functionality.
* The website header is derived from the `Mollio <http://mollio.org/>`_ set
  of html/css templates. Mollio is triple-licensed under the
  `CC BY <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/>`_, the
  `GPLv2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>`_, and the
  `CPL <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php>`_.
* The page icon in the local table of contents is one of Nicolas Gallagher's
  `pure CSS GUI icons <http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/>`_.
  Nicolas Gallagher's work is dual-licensed under an
  `MIT <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>`_ and
  `GNU GPLv2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>`_
  license.
* Download icon from the Steel System Icons set by Uriy1966,
  `iconarchive.com <http://www.iconarchive.com/show/steel-system-icons-by-uriy1966/Download-icon.html>`_,
  free for non-commercial use.