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+                                 Apache
+                             Version 1.3 (and up)
+
+  What is it?
+  -----------
+
+  Apache is an HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement for
+  the NCSA server version 1.3 (or 1.4). It fixes numerous bugs in
+  the NCSA server and includes many frequently requested new
+  features, and has an API which allows it to be extended to meet
+  users' needs more easily.
+
+  The Latest Version
+  ------------------
+
+  Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
+  server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/.
+
+  Documentation
+  -------------
+
+  The documentation available as of the date of this release is
+  also included, in HTML format, in the htdocs/manual/ directory.
+  For the most up-to-date documentation can be found on
+  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/.
+
+  Installation
+  ------------
+
+  Apache 2.0 uses autoconf for configuration and installation.  To use
+  Apache's autoconf script, you will need libtool 1.3.3 or higher, and
+  autoconf 2.13 or newer.
+
+  To configure Apache 2.0 run the following commands.
+
+  ./buildconf
+  ./configure [autoconf arguments] [apache arguments]
+  make
+  make install
+  
+  The buildconf script is very important.  Just running autoconf will not
+  leave the directory tree in a usable state.
+
+  Licensing
+  ---------
+
+  Please see the file called LICENSE.
+
+  Acknowledgments
+  ----------------
+
+  We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
+  make up portions of the Apache software:
+
+  Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
+  for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
+  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
+
+  This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
+  Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
+  modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
+  Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
+
+  This package contains software written and copyrighted by Henry
+  Spencer.  Please see the file called src/regex/COPYRIGHT. 
+
+  The NT port was started with code provided to the Apache Group
+  by Ambarish Malpani of ValiCert, Inc. (http://www.valicert.com/).
+
+  Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
+  a build environment.