diff: .README.in

[Tyson Richard DOWD]

Hi.

Here's a change to the README file.

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.README.in:
	Clarified some copyright messages.
	Make it clear we have a modified 4.11 boehm gc.
	Reformatted the document.

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 This directory contains the source distribution for the University of Melbourne
 Mercury compiler, version @VERSION at .
 
-The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright (C)
-1993-1997 The University of Melbourne.  It is distributed under the terms
-of the GNU General Public License.  See the file COPYING for copying
-permission.  The Mercury library and runtime (the files in the library
-and runtime subdirectories) are distributed under the terms of the GNU
-Library General Public License.  See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
-permissions for those files.  (If those licencing arrangements are not
-satisfactory, please contact us!  We are willing to offer alternative
-arrangements, if the need should arise.)  The subdirectory `boehm_gc'
-contains a conservative garbage collector distributed by Hans Boehm -
-see the file README in that directory for copyright information about
-those files.  A few files (config*) are derived from code that is
-copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  The program `texi2html'
-in the doc directory is copyright by CERN; see the copyright notice at
-the end of that file.
+	The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright
+	(C) 1993-1997 The University of Melbourne.  It is distributed
+	under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  See the file
+	COPYING for copying permission.
+
+	The Mercury library and runtime (the files in the library and
+	runtime subdirectories) are distributed under the terms of the
+	GNU Library General Public License.  See the file COPYING.LIB for
+	copying permissions for those files.
+
+	If those licencing arrangements are not satisfactory, please
+	contact us!  We are willing to offer alternative arrangements,
+	if the need should arise.
+	
+The subdirectory `boehm_gc' contains a slightly modified version 4.11 of
+the conservative garbage collector distributed by Hans Boehm:
+
+	Copyright 1988, 1989 Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers
+	Copyright (c) 1991-1995 by Xerox Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+
+	THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
+	EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
+
+	Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program for any
+	purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
+	Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is
+	granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a notice
+	that the code was modified is included with the above copyright
+	notice.
+
+A few files (config.guess, config.sub) are derived from code that is
+copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc, and are distributed
+under the GNU General Public License version 2.
+
+The program `texi2html' in the `doc' directory is copyright by CERN
+and is distributed under the GNU General Public
+License version 2:
+
+	This program is the intellectual property of the European
+	Laboratory for Particle Physics (known as CERN).  No guarantee
+	whatsoever is provided by CERN.  No liability whatsoever is
+	accepted for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from any
+	defect or inaccuracy in this information or code.
+
+The files in the `samples' directory are either public domain, or
+distributed under the GNU General Public License.
 
 Some of the files in the `extras' subdirectory have fairly restrictive
-copyright licences.  The `Togl' library in extras/graphics/Togl-1.2
-is copyright by Brian Paul and Ben Bederson; see the file
-extras/graphics/Togl-1.2/LICENCE.  The CLP(R) v1.2 implementation in
-extras/clpr/clpr is copyright by IBM; see the file extras/clpr/clpr/README
-for details, in particular the RESEARCH SOFTWARE DISCLAIMER and USER AGREEMENT.
+copyright licences:  
+
+	The `Togl' library in extras/graphics/Togl-1.2 is copyright by
+	Brian Paul and Ben Bederson; see the file
+	extras/graphics/Togl-1.2/LICENCE.
+
+	The CLP(R) v1.2 implementation in extras/clpr/clpr is copyright
+	by IBM; see the file extras/clpr/clpr/README for details, in
+	particular the RESEARCH SOFTWARE DISCLAIMER and USER AGREEMENT.
 
 THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
 EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.  See the file COPYING.
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