# MaNGOS2 #

Copyright (C) 2005 Team OpenWoW <http://openwow.quamquam.org/>
Copyright (C) 2008 MaNGOS foundation <http://getmangos.com/>

  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  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
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

  In addition, as a special exception, the MaNGOS Project
  gives permission to link the code of its release of MaNGOS2 with the
  OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
  that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
  the linked executables.  You must obey the GNU General Public License
  in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".  If you
  modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
  file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do
  so, delete this exception statement from your version.

  This product includes software developed by Tom Wu and Eugene
  Jhong for the SRP Distribution (http://srp.stanford.edu/).

## Welcome to MaNGOS2 ##

MaNGOS2 is a free, Open Source implementation of a game server compatible with
the original World of Warcraft client. Please see the file COPYING for license
details.

MaNGOS2 was based off the last release from Team OpenWoW, published on 14th May
2005, and has been extended to support all features which currently are
supported by the MaNGOS1 series.

For further information on the MaNGOS2, please visit our [project web
site](http://getmangos.com/). Our Wiki site provides you with valueable
information on almost any topic regarding MaNGOS and related projects.

## Further readings ##
Documenation on various development related topics can be found in the doc/
subdirectory, including Doxygen-generated API documentation.

The required SQL files for creating the database backend are included in the
sql/ subdirectory.

## Building and Installing ##
In order to build and install MaNGOS2 under Linux, follow the instructions
described in the INSTALL.GNU file.

In order to build and install MaNGOS2 under Windows, follow the instructions
described in the INSTALL.Win.txt file.