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-                     ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
-                           http://ngircd.barton.de/
-
-               (c)2001-2020 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
-               ngIRCd is free software and published under the
-                   terms of the GNU General Public License.
-
-                                -- README --
-
-
-I. Introduction
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for
-small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License
-(GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure,
-can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is
-written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
-
-The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit
-exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a
-better name :-)
-
-Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
-
-
-II. Status
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be used as daemon in
-real world IRC networks.
-
-It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of the
-original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
-specified by the RFCs that are used by existing clients.
-
-
-III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-- Well arranged (lean) configuration file.
-- Simple to build, install, configure, and maintain.
-- Supports IPv6 and SSL.
-- Can use PAM for user authentication.
-- Lots of popular user and channel modes are implemented.
-- Supports "cloaking" of users.
-- No problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses.
-- Freely available, modern, portable and tidy C source.
-- Wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
-  IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
-- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
-
-
-IV. Documentation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
-ngIRCd: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>.
-
-
-V. Download
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The homepage of the ngIRCd is <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; you will find
-the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable")
-releases there.
-
-Visit our source code repository at GitHub if you are interested in the
-latest development version: <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd>.
-
-
-VI. Problems, Bugs, Patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Please don't hesitate to contact us if you encounter problems:
-
-- On IRC: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>
-- Via the mailing list: <ngircd-ml@ngircd.barton.de>
-
-See <http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php> for details.
-
-If you find bugs in ngIRCd (which will be there most probably ...), please
-report them to our issue tracker at GitHub:
-
-- Bug tracker: <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues>
-- Patches, "pull requests": <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pulls>
-
-There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.