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About Lynx

Lynx is a fully featured World-Wide Web browser for users on both UNIX and VMS platforms who are connected to those systems via cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes VT100 terminals, and desktop-based software packages emulating VT100 terminals (e.g., Kermit, Procomm, etc.).

For information on how to use Lynx see the Lynx User's Guide, or the Lynx help files.

Credits and Copyright

Lynx is a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas.

Lynx was originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, and Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Following the departures of Lou and Garrett for positions at Netscape in the summer of 1994, Craig Lavender provided support services for Lynx, and Ravikumar Kolli for DosLynx.

Currently Lynx is being maintained and supported by members of the Internet community coordinated via the lynx-dev mailing list.

Lynx is copyrighted by the University of Kansas and is distributed under the GNU General Public License without restrictions on usage or redistribution. Any questions concerning licensing or usage should be directed to Michael Grobe <grobe@ukans.edu>.

Lynx was built over an early version of the Common Code Library developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code is copyrighted by CERN. Lynx contains other sections of code that are copyrighted by other institutions or individuals. The Lynx copyright does not override or invalidate those copyrights.

Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and the other CERN World Wide Web wizards for the WWW client library code and all of their other work on the WWW project, NCSA and the Mosaic developers, and to everyone out in netland who has contributed to Lynx's development either directly (through comments or bug reports) or indirectly (through inspiration and development of other systems).

Also, special thanks go to Foteos Macrides who ported much of Lynx to VMS and did much of it's development following Lou Montulli's and Garrett Blythe's departures from the University of Kansas, and to Earl Fogel of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl implemented the hypertext engine HYPERREZ in the UN*X environment. HYPERREZ was developed by Niel Larson of Think.com and served as the model for the early versions of Lynx which did not use the WWW libraries and had their own hypertext format.

Availability

Information on obtaining the most current version of Lynx is available via the Lynx Enhanced Pages.

Mailing List

We have a listserv mailing list running for lynx development discussion. If you are interested in joining the list, follow this link. There is also a link to archives in html format for this mailing list.