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                              *** BuDDy ***
                         Binary Decision Diagrams
                           Library Package v2.4
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BuDDy was originally developed by Jorn Lind-Nielsen as a part of his
PhD thesis.
After using BuDDy as a BDD library for long time (while getting some
support from Jorn through email), I have been suggested by Jorn to take
ownership of the project and move it to SourceForge.
I invite all users who are interested to participate in the development
to contact me.  (I always have desired tasks / features awaiting...)
I hope that BuDDy will prosper under my management.

Haim Cohen
haimcohen@users.sourceforge.net