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3 The Common Desktop Environment is released under the terms of the LGPL
4 V.2 license. You may reuse and redistribute this code under the terms
5 of this license. See the COPYING file for details.
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8 Purpose of this release:
10 This release of CDE under a new opensource license is numbered
11 starting at version 2.2.0.
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14 Downloading this release:
16 CDE may be downloaded in source form from the Common Desktop
19 http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
23 git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/cdesktopenv/code cdesktopenv-code
25 The git repository will always be more up to date than the
26 downloadable tarballs we make available, so if you have problems,
27 please try the latest version from git master.
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30 Installing this release:
32 Complete build and installation instructions can be found on the CDE
35 http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/
37 Please go there and read the appropriate section(s) for your OS (Linux
38 or FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD currently). There are a variety of
39 dependencies that must be met, as well as specific set up steps
42 Do not expect to just type 'make' and have it actually work without
43 meeting the prerequisites and following the correct steps as spelled
46 There are also a lot of other documents and information there that you
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52 You can join the development mailing list here:
54 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
56 There is a CDE IRC channel on chat.freenode.net, channel #cde
58 Bug reports and patches encouraged.