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authorEmmanuel Raviart <eraviart@entrouvert.com>2004-07-30 17:02:49 +0000
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Improved book. It also now includes HACKING.
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@@ -19,23 +19,34 @@ General Information
About This Manual
=================
+This is the Lasso Book.
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+Because this manual serves as a reference, it does not provide general
+instruction on Liberty Alliance or web concepts. It also will not teach
+you how to use your operating system or command-line interpreter.
+
+The Lasso Software is under constant development, and this manual is
+updated frequently as well. The most recent version of the manual is
+available online in at http://lasso.entrouvert.org/book.
+A copy of this book is distributed with each source code release of
+Lasso. For binary distributions, please check with your vendor.
-Lasso Book Availability
-=======================
+The primary document is the reStructuredText file. The HTML version is
+produced automatically using ``rest2html``.
+If you have any suggestions concerning additions or corrections to this
+manual, please send them to the Lasso development mailing-list.
-A copy of this book is distributed with each source code release of Lasso. For
-binary distributions, please check with your vendor.
+This manual is maintained by the Lasso Documentation Team (see AUTHORS_
+for details). For the many other contributors, see section Credits_.
-A copy is available online for reference at
-http://lasso.entrouvert.org/book.
+The copyright to this manual is owned by the French company Entr'ouvert.
+See section `Book Copyright and Permissions Notice`_. Lasso and the
+Lasso logo are trademarks of Entr'ouvert. Other trademarks and
+registered trademarks referred to in this manual are the property of
+their respective owners, and are used for identification purposes only.
-A packaged version of this book is available from
-http://lasso.entrouvert.org/download. This package is primary for those people
-wanting to have the book available for offline reference and for printing.
.. _README:
.. include:: ../../README
@@ -103,6 +114,10 @@ Contributing
FIXME
+.. _HACKING:
+.. include:: ../../HACKING
+
+
=======
Credits
=======
@@ -117,9 +132,9 @@ And to all of you who commented on and helped refine this document.
Thanks.
-=========================================
-Tutorial Copyright and Permissions Notice
-=========================================
+=====================================
+Book Copyright and Permissions Notice
+=====================================
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