This is the Debian GNU/Linux ess package of Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS)
which provides a common, generic, and useful interface, through emacs, 
to many statistical packages. 

Upstream Authors: A.J. Rossini <rossini@stat.sc.edu>, 
                  Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>,
                  Kurt Hornik <kurt.hornik@R-project.org>,
                  Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>,
                  Rodney A. Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>,
		  Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>

ESS has a home page at `http://ESS.R-project.org/'. It is free software
distributed under a GNU-style copyleft.

This package was initially debianized by Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> on
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:03:46 -0400.

As of May 2008, the package is maintained by a group of ESS and Debian
developers which can be reached at ess-debian@stat.math.ethz.ch.

Sources were downloaded from http://ESS.R-project.org/downloads/ess/ and 
changes, typically only to files in the Debian/ directory are fully documented 
in the file /usr/share/doc/ess/changelog.Debian.gz

Copyright (C) 2004 - 2008 Martin Maechler 
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2004 A.J. Rossini
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>,
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Kurt Hornik <kurt.hornik@R-project.org>,
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Rodney A. Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu>,
Copyright (C) 1994 - 2008 Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>

License: GPL

On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GNU General Public License (GPL) is
included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.