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+# !!Notice!!
+    This is a preliminary release for internal team review.
+    The URLs and addresses described below are not available yet.
+    The official release will be announced later.
+    Any suggestion for modification is welcome.
+    Delays in replies are to be expected. Sorry in advance.
+
+## What's mruby
+
+mruby is the lightweight implementation of the Ruby language complying to
+the [ISO standard](http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=59579). 
+mruby can run Ruby code in 'interpreter mode' or 'compile and execute it on a virtual machine' depending on the developer's preference.
+
+This achievement was sponsored by the Regional Innovation Creation R&D Programs of
+the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
+
+
+## Features of mruby
+
+    | Compatibility with MRI(Matz Ruby Implementation) version... 
+    |
+    |FIXME:
+    |  + Simple Syntax
+    |  + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
+    |  + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mixin, Singleton-method)
+    |  + Operator Overloading
+    |  + Exception Handling
+    |  + Iterators and Closures
+    |  + Garbage Collection
+    |  + Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
+    |  + Highly Portable (works on many Unix-like/POSIX compatible platforms
+    |    as well as Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS etc.)
+    |    cf. http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/wiki/ruby-19/SupportedPlatforms
+
+
+## How to get mruby
+
+The mruby distribution files can be found in the following site:
+
+  https://github.com/mruby/mruby/zipball/master
+
+The trunk of the mruby source tree can be checked out with the
+following command:
+
+    $ git clone https://github.com/mruby/mruby.git
+
+There are some other branches under development. Try the following
+command and see the list of branches:
+
+    $ git branch -r
+
+
+## mruby home-page
+
+mruby's website is not launched yet but we are actively working on it.
+
+The URL of the mruby home-page will be:
+
+  http://www.mruby.org/
+
+
+## Mailing list
+
+To subscribe to the mruby mailing list....[T.B.D.]
+
+
+## How to compile and install
+
+See the INSTALL file.
+
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 mruby developers
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 
+copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
+to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
+the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 
+and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
+Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
+FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER 
+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+## Note for License
+
+mruby has chosen a MIT License due to its permissive license allowing
+developers to target various environments such as embedded systems.
+However, the license requires the display of the copyright notice and license
+information in manuals for instance. Doing so for big projects can be 
+complicated or troublesome.
+This is why mruby has decided to display "mruby developers" as the copyright name
+to make it simple conventionally.
+In the future, mruby might ask you to distribute your new code
+(that you will commit,) under the MIT License as a member of
+"mruby developers" but contributors will keep their copyright.
+(We did not intend for contributors to transfer or waive their copyrights,
+ Actual copyright holder name (contributors) will be listed in the AUTHORS file.)
+
+Please ask us if you want to distribute your code under another license.
+
+## How to Contribute
+
+Send pull request to <http://github.com/mruby/mruby>.   We consider you have granted
+non-exclusive right to your contributed code under MIT license.  If you want to be named
+as one of mruby developers, include update to the AUTHORS file in your pull request.