Welcome to The Zope Source Release
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Zope is an open-source web application server.

This document provides some general information about the Zope source
release and provides links to other documents.

Installation information can be found in ``Zope/doc/INSTALL.txt``.  Other
documentation is also in the "doc" directory and in the Zope.org
documentation section at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/.

General Zope information is available at http://www.zope.org/

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Introduction
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The source release is intended for tinkerers, those who want to use
Zope components separately, people who want to use their own Python,
and people who work on platforms that are not supported by a binary
distribution.

License
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The Zope License is included in ``ZopePublicLicense.txt``.  Send your
feedback about the license to zope-license@zope.org.

Installing Zope
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Follow the instructions in ``Zope/doc/INSTALL.txt`` to install Zope.

Reporting bugs
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Bugs reports should be made through the Zope bugtracker at
http://collector.zope.org/Zope.  A bug report should contain detailed
information about how to reproduce the bug, error messages (see
/error_log within the ZMI or var/event.log)
