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Copyrights

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (or at your option a greater version of it). The CC-Attribution is almost Public Domain except for a requirement to make an attribution to the original author.

It was written by Shlomi Fish who also holds the copyrights.

About the Author

Shlomi Fish was born in Israel in 1977, and has lived there most of his life. He is a user, developer, advocate and activist of Open Source Software. His single greatest contribution so far in this area has been Freecell Solver, a Public Domain Library for solving games of Freecell and other types of Solitaire. However, he also initiated some other projects and made important contributions to projects he did not initiate some of them very large scale. Recently, most of his contribution were perl distributions he uploaded to CPAN under his username.

Fish’s work on Freecell Solver and other open source projects, and the fact he is interested in many software management techniques has led him to write a large number of articles, and weblog entries which describe his unique views as a developer of mostly portable software.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mr. Gary Campbell, the author of “FCELL.COM” whose original message provided the inspiration for this article. Thanks to Omer Zak, who went over an early draft of this article and supplied many useful comments. Thanks to Jacinta Richardson of Perl Training Australia, who gave some very useful comments on the first and second revisions, and to “Limbic_Region”, for noting an omission from it. Thanks to many people on the IRC (= Internet Relay Chat) who have read the article and commented, and chose not to be explicitly credited.

Finally, thanks to all the past and present people who helped me with Freecell Solver, and with the rest of my Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) endeavours.