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