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@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@ GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
This is an ALPHA release. There are known and significant bugs as
well as many missing features in this release.
-GNUnet is free software released under the GNU General Public License
-(v3 or later). For details see the COPYING file in this directory.
+GNUnet is free software released under the GNU Affero General Public
+License (v3 or later). For details see the COPYING file in this
+directory. If you fork this software, you MUST adjust GNUNET_AGPL_URL
+in src/include/gnunet_util_lib.h to point to the source code of your
+fork!
Additional documentation about GNUnet can be found at
https://gnunet.org/ and in the 'doc/' folder.
@@ -25,13 +28,6 @@ https://gnunet.org/ and in the 'doc/' folder.
Dependencies:
=============
-Please note that for many of its dependencies GNUnet requires very
-recent versions of the libraries which are often NOT to be found in
-stable distributions in 2014. While using older packages may in some
-cases on some operating systems may seem to work in some limited
-fashion, we are in many cases aware of serious problems with older
-packages. Hence please make sure to use the versions listed below.
-
These are the direct dependencies for running GNUnet:
- libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.42
@@ -79,6 +75,28 @@ These are the optional dependencies:
- libgabe (optional, for Attribute-Based Encryption and Identity Provider functionality,
from https://github.com/schanzen/libgabe)
+=======
+These are the direct dependencies for running GNUnet:
+
+- libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.52
+- libgcrypt >= 1.6
+- libgnurl >= 7.35.0 (available from https://gnunet.org/gnurl)
+- libunistring >= 0.9.2
+- gnutls >= 3.2.12
+- libidn >= 1.0
+- libextractor >= 0.6.1 (highly recommended)
+- openssl >= 1.0 (binary, used to generate X.509 certificate)
+- libltdl >= 2.2 (part of GNU libtool)
+- sqlite >= 3.8 (default database, required)
+- mysql >= 5.1 (alternative to sqlite)
+- postgres >= 9.5 (alternative to sqlite)
+- libopus >= 1.0.1 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
+- libpulse >= 2.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
+- libogg >= 1.3.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
+- python-zbar >= 0.10 (optional for gnunet-qr)
+- TeX Live >= 2012 (optional for gnunet-bcd[*])
+- Texinfo >= 5.2 [*1]
+- libglpk >= 4.45 (optional for experimental code)
Recommended autotools for compiling the git version are: