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Darkbot, Talking Robot Copyright (C) 1996 Darkbot Project. This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty, without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the COPYING file for the full license. - To build your Darkbot on Unixes (or cygwin), run the ./build.sh script. - For full documentation and step by step configuration help, please check Darkbot's help page at http://darkbot.sourceforge.net - Read docs/WHATSNEW for added/latest features and changes. - Read docs/README_UTILS for info on shell utilities and all files in scripts dir. - If you are running a Darkbot with version release prior to 7.0 use convertdb to convert your userlist.db to an encrypted password format. Users will need to set their passwords on IRC which initial value would be 0(zero). convertdb script and all integrated Darkbot utility scripts are on scripts directory. - If your bot is stupid, and you want it to know some general stuff, download pre-made databases from the Darkbot site. You should be aware of database mechanics before installing and running any database. Darkbot should compile and run on a lot of operating systems (OS). Please note that the darkbot team is small, most of the time there's only one developer actively working on it, in their spare time. So we can't support every version of every OS under the sun, we just don't have the time for them all. Some OS's are free to install, some cost money, some cost a lot of money. So, we have to draw the line somewhere. The general principle is that we support the oldest stable release that is still supported by the OS maker from BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X), Linux (Debian and Ubuntu), and Windows. The assumption is that later versions should be backwards compatible enough. Also, it should be easy to get these running on a VM, preferably qemu. More Linux varieties might be added, especially RPM based ones. All Darkbot program and information is provided as is without warranty of any kind. In any event shall Darkbot project or any of it's collaborators be liable for any damages whatsoever. If you do not agree with the above user disclaimer, please do not use the program and delete all Darkbot files. Darkbot is a creation of Jason Hamilton [ Jason@superlink.net ] and has been coded by several contributors who donates their code patches to the project. Please read file AUTHORS in docs directory with a list of who makes this program possible.
