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-### Coming soon
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+## History
 
+GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) has been under continuous development since 1982 and during the 90s a large number of federal US agencies, universities, and private companies were involved in the development. The core components of GRASS 1.0-5.0 and the management of the integration efforts into GRASS GIS releases were accomplished by the U.S. Army - Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA-CERL) in Champaign, Illinois. USA-CERL completed its last release of GRASS as version 4.1 in 1992, and provided five updates and patches to this release through 1995. USA-CERL also wrote the core components of the GRASS 5.0 floating point version. In 1997 and after two years of uncertainty, GRASS development was taken over by academia. Since then the international GRASS Development Team manages the source code, releases and documentation.

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-### Coming soon
+## Copyright and License Information
 
+Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is Copyright, 1999-2019 GRASS Development Team, and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). This includes all software, documentation, and associated materials.
 
+GRASS GIS is free and open source software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the [GNU General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/sgpl-3.0.html) as published by the [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/).
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+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the [GNU General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html) for more details.
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+If you are not sure about the differences between public domain software, Free Software and proprietary products, have a look at this webpage: [Categories of Free and Non-Free Software](http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html).
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+Questions regarding details of this policy can be directed to this [email address](grass-web@lists.osgeo.org).
+
+See also the [Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html).
+
+# Citing GRASS GIS Software
+Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some choices depending on the version used:
+- GRASS Development Team, 2019. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.6. Open Source Geospatial 
+Foundation. https://grass.osgeo.org
+- GRASS Development Team, 2018. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 7.4. Open Source Geospatial 
+Foundation. https://grass.osgeo.org
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+- GRASS Development Team, 2015. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Programmer's Manual. Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document: http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/
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+For more options, see also: [GRASS GIS Citation Repository](https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Citation_Repository)

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+title: "Developers"
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+The GRASS GIS project is an international team effort including [scientists and developers](https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Team) from various fields. GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System - has been under continuous development since 1982 and has involved a large number of federal US agencies, universities, and private companies. The core components of GRASS and the management of the integration of the efforts into GRASS releases were accomplished by the Construction Engineering Resesarch Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois. It has been estimated that several million dollars of GRASS GIS software development efforts across the government have been completed since the 4.1 release. Since 1997 a worldwide network of developers continue to release new GRASS GIS versions (see GRASS history).
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+The strength and success of GRASS GIS relies on the user community. The philosophy of the GRASS Development Team is to encourage users to develop their own unique tools and applications for GRASS as well as to improve the existent ones.
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+## User Groups
+
+There are many GRASS users around the world. See the [local chapters](https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/) website for more details.
+## Credits
+
+TODO