3 Copyright (C) 2005-2008 MaNGOS project <http://getmangos.com/>
5 MaNGOS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
17 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
19 In addition, as a special exception, the MaNGOS project
20 gives permission to link the code of its release of MaNGOS with the
21 OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
22 that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
23 the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
24 in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
25 modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
26 file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
27 so, delete this exception statement from your version.
31 - theluda <theluda@getmangos.com>
33 == Welcome to MaNGOS ==
35 MaNGOS (the Massive Network Game Object Server) is an Open Source reference
36 implementation for a MMORPG server system. Please see the file COPYING for
39 For further information on the MaNGOS project, please visit our project web
40 site at <http://getmangos.com/>
42 Documenation on various development related topics can be found in the doc/
43 subdirectory, including Doxygen-generated API documentation.
45 The required SQL files for creating the database backend are included in the
46 sql/ subdirectory. In case you are upgrading from an older MaNGOS release,
47 make sure you as well take a look at the SQL files in the sql/updates/ sub-
50 In order to build and install MaNGOS under Linux, follow the instructions
51 described in the INSTALL file.
53 In case you have checked out MaNGOS from the GIT repository, please run
55 $ autoreconf --install --force
57 prior to building, as you may otherwise not be able to run a build.