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This is the OpenACS Community System. |
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OpenACS (Open ArsDigita Community System) is an advanced toolkit for |
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building scalable, community-oriented web applications. |
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The original ACS, which formed the foundation of OpenACS is described |
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in http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/community.html |
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in http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/community |
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The original ACS was Copyright (C) 1995-2000 ArsDigita Corporation |
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and, in some cases, individual authors. |
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OpenACS is a community created and supported software system, visit |
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http://openacs.org for more information. |
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The major change in OpenACS 4.x is its database-independence; it can |
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use either PostgreSQL (7.1 or later) or Oracle (8.1.6 or later). |
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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(at your option) any later version. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA |
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Documentation for this system is at viewable via your favorite browser |
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at http://openacs.org/doc |
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For installation instructions, please see |
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http://openacs.org/4/ |
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Once your service is up and running, this same documenation is |
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available at |
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http://yourservicename/www/doc/ |
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The release notes for this release are available at |
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packages/acs-core-docs/www/release-notes/. |
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This is an early development version of OpenACS 4.x. Production use |
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is NOT recommended. Please report bugs via http://openacs.org/sdm |
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Please report bugs via http://openacs.org/sdm |
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