
This document includes:

* General information
* Licensing
* Requirements

* General information

This is the initial distribution of GNOME.

This is beta software.

It is here to provide a framework for GNOME developers.

* Licensing

The libgnome and libgnomeui are released under the terms of the LGPL
license, read the file COPYING.LIB for more information.

The rest of the code is released under the terms of the GPL license,
read the file COPYING for more information. 

* Requirements

The Gnome desktop environment depends on a couple of extra packages
for working properly:

	- desktop_properties:  This program requires that you have 
	  installed the latest BETA of the xlockmore program,
	  available from:

	ftp://wauug.erols.com/pub/X-Windows/xlockmore/index.html

	- Guile 1.2: FSF's scheme interpreter.

	ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz

	- Latest Gtk+: This is the release of the Gtk+ toolkit, the
	  toolkit used to build graphic applications with Gnome. 

	ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/

