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License
Babe is free software, available under the GNU Public License (GPL).
Information about the GPL can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Platforms
Babe is developed on FreeBSD, and tested on Linux. The core will always be
available to at least these two platforms. The aim of the core is to be as
portable as possible, so it is likely that it will run on other platforms with
little or no modification. It is nice when modules are portable, but there may
be cases when modules are written to specifically work on only one platform.
How do I report a bug?
The better your bug report is, the easier it will be for developers to find
and fix it. Bugs can be reported to the appropriate mailing list (see
Mailing Lists) or at Savannah (see
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=babe).
If you are reporting a bug, please include the output from contrib/report.sh
and a gdb backtrace if possible. Also, if you can reproduce the bug, please
turn on debugging in src/include/debugging.h and include it with your report.
It may also be helpful to gather some information using strace.
Why is the project named Babe?
Paul Bunyan, the greatest logger of all time, had a pet ox named Babe. Babe
was responsible for sometimes pulling massive logs along difficult terrain.
Babe, the framework, aims at being able to do the same thing.