X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7f90fb1987f51f1267bccacb9fe2a9ac424045ec;hb=58dbbce194bf3706c5dc024e2e0a93a59516de47;hp=dc0a78718710a1e662544dd28297d1f6f8f6d24d;hpb=484e3a0a6830b1cad61527b39933e6e86db2eca1;p=apache diff --git a/README b/README index dc0a787187..7f90fb1987 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -24,64 +24,95 @@ The documentation available as of the date of this release is included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most up-to-date documentation can be found at - http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/. + http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/. Installation ------------ - Please see the file called INSTALL. + Please see the file called INSTALL. Platform specific notes can be + found in README.platforms. Licensing --------- Please see the file called LICENSE. + Cryptographic Software Notice + ----------------------------- + + This distribution may include software that has been designed for use + with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside + may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export + to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption + software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies + concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption + software, to see if this is permitted. See + for more information. + + The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and + Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity + Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security + software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric + algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation + distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception + ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS + Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object + code and source code. + + The following provides more details on the included files that + may be subject to export controls on cryptographic software: + + Apache httpd 2.0 and later versions include the mod_ssl module under + modules/ssl/ + for configuring and listening to connections over SSL encrypted + network sockets by performing calls to a general-purpose encryption + library, such as OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific + SSL facilities. + + In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface + for SSL encrypted network sockets in the files under the directory + srclib/apr-util/ssl/ + that makes use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as + OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities. + Apache httpd currently does not use that apr-util interface. + + Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the + word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the + OpenSSL encryption library as distributed in open source form from + . + + The above files are optional and may be removed if the cryptographic + functionality is not desired or needs to be excluded from redistribution. + Distribution packages of Apache httpd that include the word "nossl" + in the package name have been created without the above files and are + therefore not subject to this notice. + Contacts -------- o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, security fixes, general news and information about the Apache server subscribe to the apache-announce mailing list as described under - http://httpd.apache.org/announcelist.html + o If you want freely available support for running Apache please join the - Apache user community by subscribing to one of the following USENET - newsgroups: - comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix - comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows + Apache user community by subscribing to Users Mailing List at + or one of the following + USENET newsgroups: + comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix + comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows Also available at: - http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.infosystems.www.servers + o If you want commercial support for running Apache please contact one of the companies and contractors which are listed at - http://www.apache.org/info/support.cgi + o If you have a concrete bug report for Apache please go to the Apache Group Bug Database and submit your report: - http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html + o If you want to participate in actively developing Apache please subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at - http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#http - - Acknowledgments - ---------------- - - We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that - make up portions of the Apache software: - - Portions of this software were developed at the National Center - for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of - Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - - This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security - Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various - modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and - Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore). - - This package contains software written by Philip Hazel and copyrighted by - the University of Cambridge. Please see the file called - srclib/pcre/COPYING. + - Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide - a build environment.