Specifications

Appendix A
Utilized Free and Open Source
Software
The diploma thesis has been accomplished using free and open source software exclusively. This
chapter contains a comprehensive list of the utilized applications and their area of application.
Additionally, the licenses of the applications are specified.
A.1 Typesetting
The diploma thesis is typeset with teTeX which is a T
E
X distribution that consists only of free
software. The various parts of teTeX are released under the terms of different licenses:
– GNU General Public License (GPL), [Fsf91]
– GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), [Fsf99]
– GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), [Fsf02]
The layout is based upon Peter Wilson’s class Memoir. Memoir is a flexible class for
typesetting general fiction, non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
manuscripts. Additionally, several custom LaTeX macros have been used. The class Memoir
is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) [Lat01].
teTeX is available from http://www.tug.org/teTeX/. The class Memoir is distributed
by the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). It is available from http://www.ctan.
org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/.
A.2 Figures
All figures have been either created or reworked using Inkscape which is a Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) editor. It is a fork of the Sodipodi project. Inkscape offers a reasonable export
of SVG to PostScript which is a crucial point to include graphics in a L
A
T
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X document. Inkscape
is released under the terms of the GPL and is available from http://www.inkscape.org.
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