README: Platform for Information Applications (PIA) release 2.1
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This is the first stable release of the PIA: an open-source framework for
quickly and easily developing web-based document processing systems.
Release 2.1 is expected to be fairly stable, and is intended for use by web
application developers.  As the code matures, future releases will include
more examples and support for people using the PIA to create information
applications.

The PIA is OPEN SOURCE, you can use it as you like.  Modifications that you
distribute to others must be made publicly available.  See the license at
http://www.RiSource.org/RPL (or the file LICENSE in this directory) for
details.

For information on installing and using the PIA, see the files in the Doc
directory (install.html and intro.html). 

The latest information can be obtained from http://RiSource.org/PIA/
The C version can be obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpia

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