This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms, formatted as an info file in package vera, and for The DICT Development Group's client/server software in package dict-vera. This package was constructed by Robert D. Hilliard from sources obtained from http://home.snafu.de/ohei. It is currently maintained by Sven Joachim . V.E.R.A is distributed with the following copyright notice and license: This is a special GNU edition of V.E.R.A., a list dealing with computational acronyms. Copyright (C) 1993/2006 Oliver Heidelbach Please send corrections to Oliver Heidelbach . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU FDL". Within the above restrictions the distribution of this document is explicitly encouraged and I hope you'll find it of some value. This dictionary has nothing to do with Systems Science Inc. or its products. Edition 1.17 (Texinfo) Released June 2006 On Debian systems, a copy of the GFDL (currently version 1.2) can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL.