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\section*{Authors}
The SPECFEM3D\_GLOBE package was first developed by Dimitri Komatitsch and Jean-Pierre Vilotte at Institut de Physique du Globe (IPGP) in Paris, France
from 1995 to 1997 and then by Dimitri Komatitsch and Jeroen Tromp at Harvard University and Caltech, USA, starting in 1998.
The story started on April 4, 1995, when Prof. Yvon Maday from CNRS and University of Paris, France, gave a lecture to
Dimitri Komatitsch and Jean-Pierre Vilotte at IPG about the nice properties of the Legendre spectral-element method with diagonal mass matrix that he had used for
other equations. We are deeply indebted and thankful to him for that.
That followed a visit by Dimitri Komatitsch to OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale) in Trieste, Italy, in February 1995
to meet with G\'eza Seriani and Enrico Priolo, who introduced him to their 2D Chebyshev version of the spectral-element method with a non-diagonal mass matrix.
We are deeply indebted and thankful to them for that.

Since then it has been developed and maintained by a development team: in alphabetical order,
Michael Afanasiev,
Ebru Bozda\u{g},
Joseph Charles,
Min Chen,
Cl\'ement Durochat,
Dominik G\"oddeke,
Vala Hj\"orleifsd\'ottir,
Sue Kientz,
Dimitri Komatitsch,
Jes\'us Labarta,
Nicolas Le Goff,
Pieyre Le Loher,
Matthieu Lefebvre,
Qinya Liu,
David Luet,
Yang Luo,
Alessia Maggi,
Roland Martin,
Dennis McRitchie,
Matthias Meschede,
Peter Messmer,
David Mich\'ea,
Vadim Monteiller,
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
Daniel Peter,
Kevin Pouget,
Max Rietmann,
Elliott Sales de Andrade,
Brian Savage,
Bernhard Schuberth,
Anne Sieminski,
James Smith,
Leif Strand,
Carl Tape,
Jeroen Tromp,
Brice Videau,
Jean-Pierre Vilotte,
Zhinan Xie,
Hejun Zhu.\\

The cover graphic of the manual was created
by Santiago Lombeyda from Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR), USA, with free satellite clipart pictures
from \url{http://www.4vector.com} and \url{http://www.clker.com} added to it.\\

The code is released open-source under the GNU version 2+ license, see the license at the end of this manual.\\