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ShagOS General Information

ShagOS, and most of its components, are free software for non-profit uses; they may be freely used and distributed for non-profit purposes under the terms of the Shagware Non-profit Public License, version 2.

SOLO, including all of its components, is free software for all uses; it may be freely used and distributed for all purposes under the terms of the Shagware General Public License, version 2.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR, OR ANYONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LEGAL MODIFICATION OR REDISTRIBUTION OF THIS SOFTWARE, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER RESULTING FROM IMPAIRED OR LOST DATA, SOFTWARE OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR ANY OTHER CAUSE, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM BY THE USER OR FOR ANY THIRD PARTY CLAIM.

You should have received a copy of the Shagware Public License along with this program, in a file called 'COPYING'. If this license was not received, please contact the author and describe how this software was obtained.

The author can be reached for questions, comments, and suggestions at:

Frank Barrus, 27 Lackawanna Blvd., Gillette, NJ 07933, USA email: shaggy@mail.csh.rit.edu

For bug reports, please read the file 'BUGS' first, then include the product name and version, and the word 'bug' in the subject.

Complete, unaltered, original distributions of this and related code may be obtained from: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~shaggy/software.html or: ftp://ftp.csh.rit.edu/pub/members/shaggy

In a complete ShagOS distribution, the following documents should be in the 'doc' directory, and can be read for further information:

SOLO Information:

        README.solo             information about getting started 
        STATUS.solo             current status 
        CHANGES.solo            history of past changes 
        ANNOUNCE.solo           general announcement

ShagOS Microkernel information:

not currently available

CParse information:

README.cparse misc info (incomplete/temporary)

DECO information:

README.deco misc info (incomplete/temporary)

SHACC information:

README.shacc misc info (incomplete/temporary)

General information:

        readme                  this file
        bugs                    how to report bugs
        donations               info about donations
        credits                 recognition for those that helped development
        bugfixers               recognition for those who helped fix bugs
        install                 installation instructions
        standards               various standards being used in the source
        lic_spl2.txt            ShagWare Public License, version 2

If you're using SOLO, write to me and let me know what you're using it for, so I can get a better idea of what features are most important for future releases.

If you tried SOLO and decided not to use it, please write to me and let me know why, so that I can possibly improve future releases to be more useful to everyone.

Also tell me if you want to be on the 'solo-announce' mailing list, to be automatically notified when there are new releases or bug fixes.

There will also be an 'sos-announce' mailing list when the new ShagOS is finally released. If you wish to be on it, let me know.

Frank (shaggy@csh.rit.edu)