MoinMoin Readme
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Copyright (c) 2000 - 2005 by Juergen Hermann <jh@web.de>
All rights reserved, see COPYING for details.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

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MoinMoin is a Python WikiClone. The project's homepage can be found at
http://purl.net/wiki/moin/.

See INSTALL.html            for installation instructions.
See UPDATE.html             for updating instructions.
See CHANGES                 for a version history.

Note that the code base contains some experimental or unfinished features.
Use them at your own risk. Official features are described on the set of
help pages contained in the distribution wiki.

TODO:

A list of ideas and open items is on http://purl.net/wiki/moin/MoinMoinTodo.


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SUPPORT
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To get support, please use the MoinMoin User's Mailing List. To subscribe,
go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user.

Direct mail to my mail account is increasing in volume, and prevents
others from both helping you, and learning from any answers.


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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I like to thank especially these people for their valuable ideas and
contributions:

    Ward Cunningham <ward@c2.com> for inventing WikiWiki in the first
    place.

    Martin Pool <mbp@humbug.org.au> for providing the base of what now
    is MoinMoin.

    Marko Schulz <Marko.Schulz@gmx.de> for providing input on the first
    versions of MoinMoin as it evolved.

    Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp> provided the set of emoticons that come
    with the standard distribution, and came up with the idea to add that
    feature.

    Richard Jones <richard@bizarsoftware.com.au> who provided so much code
    in so little time that I could not keep up with him. He works on company
    time, though (unless I'm mistaken). Also found the nasty security hole
    in release 0.6.

    Christian Bird <chris.bird@lineo.com> provided some nice ideas and some
    code.

    Peter Thoeny and all other people involved in creating TWikiDrawPlugin;
    for copyright information on TWikiDrawPlugin see below; for more
    information and a download link to get the source refer to
    http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDrawPlugin

    Thomas Waldmann for the major effort of translating all the help and
    system pages to German, and increasing volumes of code.

    Bernhard Rosenkraenzer and Andrew Bennetts for password login patches.

    Florian Festi, Bastian Blank, Oliver Graf and Nir Soffer for many code
    contributions.

    Alexander Schremmer for much testing work, code contributions and
    finally fixing the win32 stuff.

    And all the people I forgot or that are mentioned in the code.


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MoinMoin is based on PikiPiki, this is PikiPiki's copyright:

    Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Martin Pool <mbp@humbug.org.au>

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
    WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
    USA

The PikiPiki homepage is at http://sourcefrog.net/projects/piki/.


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TWikiDraw is based on Erich Gamma's JHotDraw 5.1. (JHotDraw is copyright
1996, 1997 by IFA Informatik and Erich Gamma,
erich_gamma@acmSPAMBLOCK.org . It is hereby granted that this software
can be used, copied, modified, and distributed without fee provided that
this copyright notice appears in all copies. ) 

TWikiDraw uses ACME Labs' GifEncoder to convert a drawing into a GIF
file format. (GifEncoder is Copyright (C)1996,1998 by Jef Poskanzer,
jef@acmeSPAMBLOCK.com . All rights reserved. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED
BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN
NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.) 

TWikiDraw uses some ideas of KmWiki drawing applet. 

TWikiDraw: Copyright 2000 by Peter Thoeny, Peter@ThoenySPAMBLOCK.com. It
is hereby granted that this software can be used, copied, modified, and
distributed without fee provided that this copyright notice appears in
all copies. 

Modifications Copyright (C) 2001 Motorola. All Rights Reserved. 

PeterThoeny created TWikiDraw based on above software 

CrawfordCurrie made a number of improvements. 


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The slides in wiki\data\text\WikiSchulung* were written at WEB.DE AG and
licensed to MoinMoin users under the terms of "IFL-Text v1.0".

Copyright (c) 2003 by WEB.DE AG, Karlsruhe, Germany.

IFL-Text v1.0: see http://www.ifross.de/ifross_html/ifl.html

