X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=cff06b9543e46d1b5698323757d07363036f9829;hb=4d7c5e087b2bc82c9f503dff003916d1047903ce;hp=347cb71cbe9f495b9356e4aa0dd4d09e41c3c77a;hpb=51f277080d5271beb45eb33202b9fcb84914657a;p=wget diff --git a/README b/README index 347cb71c..cff06b95 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -*- text -*- GNU Wget ======== - Current Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/ + Current Web home: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as @@ -36,38 +36,34 @@ options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for site settings. -Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many of -its predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no -additional software (like perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is -easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is -described in the INSTALL file. +Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike +many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus +requiring no additional software, such as Perl. The external software +it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional. As Wget uses the GNU +Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems. +The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file. -Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the -master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example, -Wget 1.9 is available at: - - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.9.tar.gz +As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at +the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. Wget +resides at . Please report bugs in Wget to . -Wget has a mailing list at . To subscribe, mail to -. Wget's home page is temporarily at -. It is being migrated to -, where will be its permanent home. - +See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists. +Wget's home page is at . -MAINTAINER: Hrvoje Niksic +MAINTAINER: Micah Cowan -Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file -AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a -detailed listing of all contributions. +Wget was originally written and mainained by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see +the file AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs +for a detailed listing of all contributions. -Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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 2 of the License, or +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, @@ -77,7 +73,8 @@ 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, write to the Free Software -Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 +USA. In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the