
AUTHORIZATION TO USE AND DISTRIBUTE

By receiving this distribution, you have agreed to the following 
terms governing the use and redistribution of the prototype NRL
MDP software release written and developed by Brian Adamson and
Joe Macker:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that: 

(1) source code distributions retain this paragraph in its entirety, 

(2) distributions including binary code include this paragraph in
  its entirety in the documentation or other materials provided 
  with the distribution, and 

(3) all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this 
  software display the following acknowledgment:

   "This product includes software written and developed 
    by Brian Adamson and Joe Macker of the Naval Research 
    Laboratory (NRL)." 

The name of NRL, the name(s) of NRL  employee(s), or any entity
of the United States Government may not be used to endorse or
promote  products derived from this software, nor does the 
inclusion of the NRL written and developed software  directly or
indirectly suggest NRL or United States  Government endorsement
of this product.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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INTRODUCTION:

This is a preliminary release of the MDP source code.  For most
purposes, the authors would prefer that the code not be
re-distributed so that users will obtain the latest (and most
debugged/improved) release from the official MDP web site.  The
protocol may change and there a number of known caveats,
optimizations, and some code re-organization which should be 
documented and implemented before extremely widespread release of
this code.

We would appreciate receiving any contributed enhancements  or
modifications to this code release. Please contact the developers
with comments/questions regarding this code release.  Feedback on
use of this code can help continue support for further development.

BUILD NOTES:

The MDP code is dependent upon the NRL Protean Protolib package.  
The current Makefiles expect a symbolic link to a directory with
the PROTOLIB source files entitled "protolb" on the same level
as the included "common", "unix", and "win32" directories.  The Protolib
distribution is available from <http://pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil>.

The "unix" directory contains source code and Makefiles for 
various unix platforms.  To build, see the README in the "unix"
directory.

The "win32" directory contains source code and Visual C++ project
files to build the MDP library and some example applications (winMdp
and mdpChat).  Note that the VC++ MDP workspace requires that the
"Protolib.dsp" (VC++ project) is included.  See the above information
on getting the Protolib distribution.

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Brian Adamson <adamson@itd.nrl.navy.mil> +1-202-404-1194 
Information Technology Division 	 
Naval Research Laboratory		    
4555 Overlook Avenue
Washington DC 20375                

Joe Macker <macker@itd.nrl.navy.mil> +1-202-767-2001
Information Technology Division 	 
Naval Research Laboratory		    
4555 Overlook Avenue
Washington DC 20375                

