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+# !!Notice!!
+    This is a preliminary release for internal team reviewing.
+    The URL and address discribed below are not available yet.
+    The official release will be announced later. Thanks.
+    Any suggestion of the modification are welcome,
+    but the response might be delayed. Sorry for that in advance.
+
+# What's mruby
+
+mruby is the light-weight implementation of the Ruby language complied to
+the ISO standard to execute various environments. It can run in 'interpreter
+form' or 'compile and execute on vm form' according to its module construction.
+
+This achievement is due to the Regional Innovation Creation R&D Programs of
+the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
+
+
+# Features of mruby
+
+    |FIXME:
+    |  + Simple Syntax
+    |  + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
+    |  + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, 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 ....
+
+There are some other branches under development.  Try the following
+command and see the list of branches:
+
+    $ git ....
+
+
+# mruby home-page (sorry, it's not launched yet. we're working on this)
+
+The URL of the mruby home-page is:
+
+  http://www.mruby.org/
+
+
+# Mailing list
+
+There is a mailing list to talk about mruby.
+To subscribe this list....[T.B.D.]
+
+
+# How to compile and install
+
+See the file INSTALL.
+
+
+# Copying
+
+See the file COPYING.
+
+
+# About Contribution
+
+Thank you for considering of contribution for mruby.
+mruby has chosen a MIT License as comparatively loose condition,
+to expect to apply into various environment such as embedded system.
+However, the license requires to display copyright notice and license
+sentenses, for example manual or so. Especially for the recent bigger
+system, it is comlecated or very troublesome.
+So, mruby has decided to display "mruby developers" as copyright name
+to make it simple conventionally.
+In the future, mruby might ask you to distribute your new codes
+(that you will commit,) under MIT License as a member of
+"mruby developers" with keeping copyright of you.
+(We did not intend you to transfer or waive your copyright,
+ Actual copyright holder name, you, will be listed in AUTHORS file.)
+
+Please ask us if you want to distribute your code under other license
+or if your code is derived from GPL code.
+
+
+# The Author
+
+See the file AUTHORS.
+
+
+Feel free to send comments and bug reports to the author.  Here is the
+author's latest mail address:
+
+  [email protected]
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+created at: Fri Apr  20 11:57:36 JST 2012
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