OpenSS7 Master Package -- alpha release introduction. 2006-03-02 README-alpha,v 0.9.2.1 2006/03/05 06:31:31 brian Exp Copyright (c) 2001-2006 OpenSS7 Corporation. Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock See the end for copying conditions (for this file). This is an alpha release of the OpenSS7 Master Package. The purpose of this alpha release is to provide the techical community with detailed information on the status and development directions for the package. THIS CODE HAS NOT BEEN VALIDATED. LOADING OR EXECUTING CODE IN THIS RELEASE MAY CRASH YOUR MACHINE AND MAY INADVERTENTLY CAUSE DAMAGE. THERE IS NO WARRANTY. The following is an extract from the Installation and Reference Manual: 4.4 Bugs ======== "OpenSS7 Master" may have unknown bugs. These are alpha releases. Although there are no bugs known to be harmful, the OpenSS7 Project does not fully validate alpha releases. Use at your own risk. Remember that there is NO WARRANTY.(1) This software is alpha software. As such, it might crash your kernel. Installation of the software might irreparably mangle your header files or Linux distribution in such a way as to make it unusable. Crashes might lock your system and rebooting the system might not repair the problem. You can loose all the data on your system. Because this software might crash your kernel, the resulting unstable system could destroy computer hardware or peripherals making them unusable. You could void the warranty on any system on which you run this software. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) See section NO WARRANY under *Note Copying::. ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2006 OpenSS7 Corporation. Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working professionally. Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS. If you are licensing this Software on behalf of the U.S. Government ("Government"), the following provisions apply to you. If the Software is supplied by the Department of Defense ("DoD"), it is classified as "Commercial Computer Software" under paragraph 252.227-7014 of the DoD Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulations ("DFARS") (or any successor regulations) and the Government is acquiring only the license rights granted herein (the license rights customarily provided to non-Government users). If the Software is supplied to any unit or agency of the Government other than DoD, it is classified as "Restricted Computer Software" and the Government's rights in the Software are defined in paragraph 52.227-19 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations ("FAR") (or any successor regulations) or, in the cases of NASA, in paragraph 18.52.227-86 of the NASA Supplement to the FAR (or any successor regulations). ========================================================================= Commercial licensing and support of this software is available from OpenSS7 Corporation at a fee. See http://www.openss7.com/ ========================================================================= vim: ft=README tw=72 nocindent nosmartindent formatoptions+=tcqlorn