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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo 9ca0182ec6 Don't link with libgnutls-openssl, which is now GPLv3+.
ELinks used to call the MD5 code in libgnutls-openssl, part of
GNUTLS-EXTRA, which was licensed under GNU GPL version 2 or later.
In GnuTLS 2.2.0 however, the license of GNUTLS-EXTRA has been changed
to GNU GPL version 3 or later.  This is no longer compatible with
GNU GPL version 2 as used in the current ELinks, because GPLv2 clause
2. b) requires the whole work to be licensed under GPLv2, and GPLv3
does not allow that.

If anyone is still using a pre-2.2 GnuTLS, he or she can tweak
configure.in to check the version or just assume it's old enough.
There is not much reason to do so though, as including the MD5 code
in ELinks seems to cost only about 4 kilobytes on i686.
2008-08-17 17:36:43 +03:00
config Don't contaminate CFLAGS with stuff from RUBY_CFLAGS 2006-01-29 11:25:43 +01:00
contrib grafthistory: support curl 2008-07-03 11:41:34 +03:00
doc Update manpages for 0.11.4 2008-06-20 21:57:12 +02:00
po Update po files 2008-06-20 21:47:17 +02:00
src Bug 698: Keep forms contiguous and non-overlapping and start from 0. 2008-07-25 22:31:35 +03:00
test test, CGI: added a simple form to test CGI. 2007-07-02 22:50:33 +03:00
Unicode Merge in the public entity set names from the unicode.org database 2006-01-10 14:33:27 +01:00
.gitignore Remove traces of nuts and automake. 2005-09-16 13:44:33 +02:00
.mailmap Add .mailmap file to help git-shortlog 2007-04-15 22:11:19 +02:00
ABOUT-NLS Initial commit of the HEAD branch of the ELinks CVS repository, as of 2005-09-15 15:58:31 +02:00
AUTHORS Recognize Insert key on cons25 (FreeBSD console) 2008-05-31 21:30:40 +03:00
autogen.sh Bug 936: Create stamp-h.in in autogen.sh. 2007-07-02 22:53:11 +03:00
BUGS Drop .or from elinks.or.cz. 2005-12-29 04:35:02 +00:00
ChangeLog Link to gitweb at repo.or.cz, rather than pasky.or.cz. 2007-07-02 22:41:42 +03:00
configure.in Don't link with libgnutls-openssl, which is now GPLv3+. 2008-08-17 17:36:43 +03:00
COPYING Clarify the GPL upgrades policy a bit, and propose an addition 2005-09-17 03:33:36 +02:00
features.conf Advertise smb2.c to be included in ELinks 0.12.0. 2007-03-27 01:41:26 +03:00
INSTALL Remove some suspiciously looking empty lines 2006-01-29 11:21:17 +01:00
Makefile Document that GNU Make >= 3.78 is needed, and check it. 2007-12-09 08:17:24 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Define datarootdir in Makefile.config.in, for better Autoconf compatibility. 2008-02-07 23:40:23 +02:00
Makefile.lib build: Don't use $(AM_CFLAGS) anymore. Use $(CPPFLAGS) instead. 2007-05-28 10:53:18 +03:00
NEWS Don't link with libgnutls-openssl, which is now GPLv3+. 2008-08-17 17:36:43 +03:00
README Drop .or from elinks.or.cz. 2005-12-29 04:35:02 +00:00
SITES Removed outdated entries. 2007-04-01 21:10:43 +03:00
THANKS THANKS: Remove link to HSTI webpage as the domain is for sale. 2008-07-02 20:26:39 +03:00
TODO Drop .or from elinks.or.cz. 2005-12-29 04:35:02 +00:00

ELinks - an advanced web browser
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web
(HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly
customizable and can be extended via scripts. It is very portable and runs
on a variety of platforms.

The ELinks official website is available at

	http://elinks.cz/

Please see the SITES file for mirrors or other recommended sites.  If you
want to install ELinks on your computer, see the INSTALL file for further
instructions.

A good start point is documentation files available in doc/, especially the
file named index.txt.

If you want to request features or report bugs, see community information at
http://elinks.cz/community.html and feedback information available at
http://elinks.cz/feedback.html.

If you want to write some patches, please first read the doc/hacking.txt
document.

If you want to add a new language or update the translation for an existing
one, please read po/README document.

If you want to write some documentation, well, you're welcome! ;)



Historical notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Initially, ELinks was a development version of Links (Lynx-like text WWW
browser), with more liberal features policy and development style.  Its purpose
was to provide an alternative to Links, and to test and tune various new
features, but still provide good rock-solid releases inside stable branches.

Why not contribute to Links instead?  Well, first I made a bunch of patches for
the original Links, but Mikulas wasn't around to integrate them, so I started
releasing my fork. When he came back, a significant number of them got refused
because Mikulas did not like them, as he just wouldn't have any use for them
himself.  He wants to keep Links with a relatively closed feature set and merge
only new features which he himself needs.  It has advantages that the tree is
very narrow and the code is small and contains very little bloat.

ELinks, on the contrary, aims to provide a full-featured web browser, superior
to both lynx and w3m and with the power (but not slowness and memory usage) of
Mozilla, Konqueror and similar browsers. However, to prevent drastic bloating
of the code, the development is driven in the course of modularization and
separation of add-on modules (like cookies, bookmarks, ssl, scripting etc).

For more details about ELinks history, please see

	http://elinks.cz/history.html

If you are more interested in the history and various Links clones and versions,
you can examine the website at

	http://links.sf.net/




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