Bridge Command
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This is the source code for Bridge Command, developed in C++ using the
Irrlicht 3d library.

For more information, see https://www.bridgecommand.co.uk

To compile
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For Windows, Visual Studio 2022 (or greater) and Code::Blocks are used 
and tested. Project files for both are in the src folder.

For Linux and macOS, CMake is used. Please see the instructions in 
src/CompilingLinuxAndMac.txt 

Licence
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Bridge Command is Copyright (C) 2025 by James Packer. The model files
distributed in this release are copyright by their authors. In this
release, models have been provided by Ragnar, Juergen Klemp, Simon D 
Richardson, Jason Simpson, Thierry Videlaine, NETC (Naval Education 
and Training Command) and James Packer.

Bridge Command is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

The models provided by Ragnar, Jason Simpson and James Packer are 
free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the
terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 as published by the
Free Software Foundation.

Other models distributed with Bridge Command may be used with Bridge 
Command. For any other use, you must obtain permission from the 
relevant author. 

Each model is credited to its author in the documentation distributed
with Bridge Command.

Bridge Command uses the Irrlicht Engine 
(http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net), the ENet networking library 
(http://enet.bespin.org), ASIO, PortAudio, water based on Keith Lantz
FFT water implementation and the RealisticWaterSceneNode by elvman
(https://github.com/elvman/RealisticWaterSceneNode), AIS Parser by 
Brian C. Lane, and the Serial library by William Woodall. Bridge 
Command depends on libsndfile, which is released under the GNU Lesser
General Public License version 2.1 or 3.

The Irrlicht Engine is based in part on the work of the Independent 
JPEG Group, the zlib, and libpng.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.