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For an order form for all Sovix distributions deliverable from
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	   GNU Sovix availability information, March 2007

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 David Englund

	Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
	verbatim copies of this document provided that the
	copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.

GNU Sovix is legally owned by David Englund.

In the GNU project, when we speak of "free software", this refers to
liberty, not price.  Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to
study, copy, change and improve the software.  Sometimes users pay
money for copies of GNU software, and sometimes they get copies at no
charge.  But regardless of how they got the software, or whether it
was modified by anyone else along the way, they have the freedom to
copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means.

The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the
document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to
be distributed with every copy of GNU Sovix.  It is usually in a file
named `COPYING' in the same directory as this file.  These conditions
are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Sovix
(including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and
change it.

If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Sovix from, you can
order a cd-rom from the Sovix website.  We distribute
several Sovix versions. See http://www.sovix.org/Order/Order.

If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Sovix
distribution from hosts, such as
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/sovix/

Sovix has been run on GNU/Linux systems and is cross platformed.

GNU Sovix is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see
above)), and neither I promises any kind of support or assistance to
users.  The website keeps a list of people who are willing to offer
support and assistance for hire. See http://www.sovix.org/Help/Get_help.

However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Sovix and keep it
reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have.
I will probably fix anything that I consider a malfunction.  I may
make improvements that are suggested, but I may choose not to.

If you are on the Internet, report bugs to bug-sovix@gnu.org.  You
can use the Sovix command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report
in Sovix.

If you like GNU Sovix, please express your satisfaction with a
donation: send me what you feel Sovix has been worth
to you.  If you are glad that I developed GNU Sovix and distribute it
as free software, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
practices typical of software developers, reward me.  If you would
like me to develop more free software, contribute.

Your donations will help to support the development of GNU Sovix to make
it a GNU package. 

			David Englund
			Chief,
			President of the Sovix project
