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authorGuido Vranken <guidovranken@gmail.com>
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:39:10 +0000 (10:39 +0200)
committerGuido Vranken <guidovranken@gmail.com>
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:39:10 +0000 (10:39 +0200)
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+OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon
+
+Copyright (C) 2002-2010 OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. This program is free software;
+you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
+as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+*************************************************************************
+
+To get the latest release of OpenVPN, go to:
+
+       https://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html
+
+To Build and Install,
+
+       tar -zxf openvpn-<version>.tar.gz
+       cd openvpn-<version>
+       ./configure
+       make
+       make install
+
+or see the file INSTALL for more info.
+
+*************************************************************************
+
+For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page
+  http://openvpn.net/man.html
+
+For a sample VPN configuration, see
+  http://openvpn.net/howto.html
+
+To report an issue, see
+  https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/report
+
+For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol,
+  see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution.
+
+*************************************************************************
+
+Other Files & Directories:
+
+* configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure
+  script and makefile.
+
+* sample/sample-scripts/verify-cn
+
+  A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's
+  --tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication
+  test on embedded X509 certificate fields.
+
+* sample/sample-keys/
+
+  Sample RSA keys and certificates.  DON'T USE THESE FILES
+  FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.
+
+* sample/sample-config-files/
+
+  A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from
+  the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html
+
+*************************************************************************
+
+Note that easy-rsa and tap-windows are now maintained in their own subprojects.
+Their source code is available here:
+
+  https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
+  https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows
+
+The old cross-compilation environment (domake-win) and the Python-based
+buildsystem have been replaced with openvpn-build:
+
+  https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build
+
+See the INSTALL file for usage information.