Smack Readme

version:	3.4.0
released:	02/02/2014

Thank you for downloading Smack!

Start off by viewing the documentation that can be found in the "documentation" directory included with this distribution.

Further information can be found on the Smack website. If you need help using or would like to make contributions or fixes to the code, please visit the online forum.

About the Distribution

The smack.jar file in the main distribution folder is the only binary file required for embedding XMPP functionality into client applications. The optional smackx.jar contains the Smack extensions while smackx-debug.jar contains an enhanced debugger.

If you downloaded the developer release, the full source of the library is included in the source directory and can be compiled using the build scripts found in the build directory (please see the README file in the build directory for further details).

Changelog and Upgrading

View the changelog for a list of changes since the last release.

License Agreements

• Use of thie Smack source code is governed by the Apache License:

   Copyright 2002-2008 Jive Software.
  
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   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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• Smack contains icons and images licensed from INCORS GmbH. You are not licensed to use these icons outside of Smack.
• Third-party source code is licensed as noted in their source files.
• Third-party binary code is licensed as follows.

   dnsjava (http://dnsjava.org)
  
   Copyright (c) 1999-2005, Brian Wellington
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