Maxima and other software licenses

# Information about included software

This installer for Maxima does not contain only Maxima, but also other free software, which is required or recommended for Maxima. The following projects are included in the installer:

## Maxima

Maxima is the computer algebra system, which does all the mathematics. Maxima is mostly written in the programming language Lisp.

- Maxima website
- Maxima license
- Maxima documentation

## CLISP

GNU Clisp is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

- CLISP website
- CLISP license

## SBCL

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler.

- SBCL website
- SBCL license
- SBCL documentation

## ABCL

Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) is a full implementation of the Common Lisp language running in the Java VM.

- ABCL Website
- ABCL license

## TCL/TK

Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, Tk a graphical user interface toolkit.
The Maxima frontend Xmaxima is written in TCL/TK.

- TCL/TK Website
- TCL/TK license

## Gnuplot

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility. Gnuplot is used for 2D and 3D plots in Maxima.

- Gnuplot website
- Gnuplot license
- Gnuplot documentation

## VTK

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is open source software for manipulating and displaying scientific data. In Maxima it can be used as alternative renderer for the `draw()` command.

- VTK website
- VTK license

## wxWidgets

wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
The frontend wxMaxima is based on that library.

- wxWidgets website
- wxWidgets license

## wxMaxima

wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima provides menus and dialogs for many common maxima commands, autocompletion, inline plots and simple animations.

- wxMaxima website
- wxMaxima license
- wxMaxima documentation

Thanks to all these free software projects! And the free software which was used to build this installer!