                               Classias
                              Version 1.1
                 http://www.chokkan.org/software/classias/



* INTRODUCTION
Classias is a collection of machine learning algorithms for
classification. Please refer to the web site for more information
about this software.
http://www.chokkan.org/software/classias/


* COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING INFORMATION

This program is distributed under the modified BSD license. Refer to
COPYING file for the precise description of the license.


Portions of this software are based on libLBFGS.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 1990 Jorge Nocedal
Copyright (c) 2007 Naoaki Okazaki

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Portions of this software are based on libexecstream.

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Copyright (c) 2004 Artem Khodush
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Portions of this software are based on a portable stdint.h (for MSVC).

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Paul Hsieh

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* SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO...
He Tan
Hiromi Wakaki
Yusuke Owada


