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Civetweb keeps the balance between functionality and
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-simplicity by carefully selected list of features:
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+simplicity by a carefully selected list of features:
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- Liberal, commercial-friendly, permissive,
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[MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)
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- Free from copy-left licenses, like GPL, because you should innovate without restrictions.
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- Based on [Mongoose](https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/)
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- Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX, iPhone, Android, Buildroot, and many other platforms
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-- Scripting and database support (Lua Server Pages + Sqlite
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- which provides ready to go, powerful web development platform in
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- one single-click executable with **no dependencies**: forget LAMP!
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-- Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
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+- Scripting and database support (Lua scipts, Lua Server Pages, CGI + SQLite database).
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+ This provides a ready to go, powerful web development platform in a
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+ one single-click executable with **no dependencies**.
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+- Support for CGI, HTTPS/SSL, SSI, HTTP digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
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- Resumed download, URL rewrite, file blacklist, IP-based ACL, Windows service
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- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
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-- Simple and clean embedding API,
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- The source is in single file
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- to make things easy. Embedding examples included.
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+- Simple and clean embedding API.
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+ The source is in single file to make things easy. Embedding examples included.
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- HTTP client capable of sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
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-### Other optionally included software
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+### Optionally included software
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<a href="http://lua.org">
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<a href="http://sqlite.org">
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</a>
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+<a href=http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem/">
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+</a>
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+<a href=http://lua.sqlite.org/index.cgi/index">
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+</a>
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Support
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-The original Mongoose project is recommended if support is needed. However,
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-this is very easy to install and use.
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+This project is very easy to install and use. Please read the [documentation](https://github.com/bel2125/civetweb/blob/master/docs/).
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+More information may be found on the [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/civetweb).
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Contributions
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@@ -85,18 +92,14 @@ DO NOT APPLY fixes copied from Mongoose to this project to prevent GPL tainting.
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### Author
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-The original Author was Sergey Lyubka. He still controls the original
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-Mongoose project. However, he has changed or said he would
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+Civetweb is based on the Mongoose project - the original Author was Sergey Lyubka. He still
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+controls the original Mongoose project. However, he has changed or said he would
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change licenses after writing and distributing the original code this
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project is based on.
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Using this project ensures the MIT licenses terms are applied and
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GPL cannot be imposed on any of this code as long as it is sourced from
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-here.
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+here. This code will remain free with the MIT license protection.
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-For the latest and greatest code and features, please use the Mongoose
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-code from Sergey Lyubka. However, doing so will require adherence to
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-the new licenses.
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+A list of authors can be found in [CREDITS.md](https://github.com/bel2125/civetweb/blob/master/CREDITS.md)
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-This project ensures that GPL license cannot be applied to this code.
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-This code will remain free with the MIT license protection.
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