Mission statement

README.md

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-Overview
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+Project Mission
+---------------
 
-Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server
-library to provide web interface to applications. Mongoose executable does not
-depend on any external library or configuration. If it is copied to any directory
-and launched from there, it starts to serve that directory on port 8080 (so to access
-files, go to http://localhost:8080). If some additional config is required - for
-example, different listening port or IP-based access control, that can be done via
-command line flags or configuration file, which should be created in the same
-directory where mongoose itself lives. This makes Mongoose perfect for all sorts
-of demos, quick tests, file sharing, and Web programming.
-See [manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/Manual) for more information.
+Project mission is to provide the community with simple and functional
+web server library and web server built on top of that library.
 
 
-Features
+The target audience are application or device developers looking to implement
+web interface for their applications or devices and web developers looking for
+a simple development platform.
+
+Overview
 --------
 
-- Crossplatform - works on Windows, MacOS and most flavors of UNIX
+To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on functionality and
+simplicity by carefully selected list of features:
+
+- Liberal [MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License), which is great for commercial use
+- Crossplatform - works on Windows, Mac and UNIX
 - CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV support
-- Lua server pages (like PHP, but using Lua as a language instead of PHP)
+- Lua server pages support (PHP-like functionality using Lua), see [page.lp](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp)
 - Resumed download, URL rewrite, IP-based ACL, Windows service
 - Excluding files from serving by URI pattern (file blacklist)
 - Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
 - Small footprint: executable size is 50 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
-- 130 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above compiled in, and no dependencies
+- 130 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above and no dependencies
 - Embeddable with simple and clean API ([mongoose.h](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h)). The source is in single [mongoose.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.c) file to make things easy.
 - Embedding examples: [hello.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/hello.c), [post.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/post.c), [upload.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/upload.c), [websocket.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/websocket.c)
-- Super-liberal MIT license, great for commercial users!
+
+
+See [manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/Manual) for more information.
 
 
 Mailing list
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 Keep Sergey happy
 -----------------
 
-I have a [books wishlist](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority) on Amazon. If you feel brave, you can buy me a book!
-Many thanks to all who already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo and 4 others. Appreciated, guys, you keep my brains going!
+I have a [books wishlist](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority) on
+Amazon. If you feel brave, you can buy me a book! Many thanks to all who
+already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo and 4 others.
+Appreciated, guys, you keep my brains going!