
This document includes:

    * General information
    * Licensing
    * Requirements
    * Reporting bugs

* General information

   This is a snapshot of the GNOME libraries, part of the GNOME
project, the GNU desktop.

* Licensing

   The GNOME libraries (libgnome, libgnomeui, gtk-xmhtml, zvt, vfs)
are released under the terms of the LGPL license, read the file
COPYING.LIB for more information.

The rest of the code is released under the terms of the GPL license,
read the file COPYING for more information. 

* Requirements

The Gnome desktop environment depends on a couple of extra packages
for working properly:

	- GNU gettext:

	   ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu

	   Note: This is not required if you pass --with-included-gettext
	   flat to configure

	- Docbook packages (for building the documentation only)

	  ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/rosalia/docware

	  For more information on this, see:
	
	  http://niw-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html

	- Gtk+ 1.1.latest

	   ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/

	- Graphics libraries: png, xpm, tiff, gif.

	- DB 1.85, or DB 2.x with 1.86 compatibility enabled

	  http://www.sleepycat.com/

	- Imlib

	  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest/imlib

* Reporting bugs

   To report bugs on the GNOME system: either compilation problems,
or malfunctions in the code, please do use the "gnome-bug" program
(distributed in this package).

   You can keep track of your bug, by checking the http://bugs.gnome.org
web site.

