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+http://www.softether.org/
+
+We use GitHub as the primary official SoftEther VPN repository:
+https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/
+
+Source code packages (.zip and .tar.gz) and binary files are also available:
+http://www.softether-download.com/
+
+Copyright (c) 2012-2014 SoftEther Project at University of Tsukuba, Japan.
+
+This program 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.
+
+SoftEther VPN ("SoftEther" means "Software Ethernet") is one of the
+world's most powerful and easy-to-use multi-protocol VPN software.
+
+SoftEther VPN runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris.
+
+SoftEther VPN supports most of widely-used VPN protocols
+including SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP
+by the single SoftEther VPN Server program.
+
+More details on http://www.softether.org/.
+
+
+SOFTETHER VPN ADVANTAGES
+------------------------
+
+- Supporting all popular VPN protocols by the single VPN server:
+ SSL-VPN (HTTPS)
+ OpenVPN
+ IPsec
+ L2TP
+ MS-SSTP
+ L2TPv3
+ EtherIP
+- Free and open-source software.
+- Easy to establish both remote-access and site-to-site VPN.
+- SSL-VPN Tunneling on HTTPS to pass through NATs and firewalls.
+- Revolutionary VPN over ICMP and VPN over DNS features.
+- Resistance to highly-restricted firewall.
+- Ethernet-bridging (L2) and IP-routing (L3) over VPN.
+- Embedded dynamic-DNS and NAT-traversal so that no static nor
+ fixed IP address is required.
+- AES 256-bit and RSA 4096-bit encryptions.
+- Sufficient security features such as logging and firewall inner
+ VPN tunnel.
+- 1Gbps-class high-speed throughput performance with low memory and
+ CPU usage.
+- Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone are
+ supported.
+- The OpenVPN clone function supports legacy OpenVPN clients.
+- IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack.
+- The VPN server runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
+- Configure All settings on GUI.
+- Multi-languages (English, Japanese and Simplified-Chinese).
+- More details at http://www.softether.org/.
+
+
+GETTING STARTED
+---------------
+
+Visit the SoftEther VPN Project official web site at first:
+ http://www.softether.org/
+
+If you are not a developer, it is recommended to download the binary
+installers from:
+ http://www.softether-download.com/
+
+To build from the source,
+see "BUILD_UNIX.TXT" or "BUILD_WINDOWS.TXT" files.
+
+
+HOW TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST SOURCE CODE PACKAGE
+----------------------------------------------
+
+Go to http://www.softether-download.com/ and you can find the latest
+source-code package file in both .ZIP and .TAR.GZ format.
+
+This is the easiest way to obtain the source code of SoftEther VPN.
+
+
+HOW TO GET THE LATEST SOURCE CODE TREE FOR DEVELOPERS
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+If you are an open-source developer, visit our GitHub repository:
+https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/
+
+You can download the up-to-date source-code tree of SoftEther VPN
+from GitHub. You may make your own fork project from our project.
+
+The download and build instruction is following:
+
+$ git clone https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN.git
+$ cd SoftEtherVPN
+$ make
+$ make install
+
+
+TO CIRCUMVENT YOUR GOVERNMENT'S FIREWALL RESTRICTION
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Because SoftEther VPN is overly strong tool to build a VPN tunnel,
+some censorship governments want to block your access to the source code
+of SoftEther VPN, by abusing their censorship firewalls.
+
+To circumvent your censor's unjust restriction,
+SoftEther VPN Project distributes the up-to-date source-code
+on all the following open-source repositories:
+
+ - GitHub
+ https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/
+
+ - SourceForge
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/softethervpn/
+
+ - Google Code
+ https://code.google.com/p/softether/
+
+
+To fetch the source code from GitHub:
+$ git clone https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN.git
+
+To fetch the source code from SourceForge:
+$ git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/softethervpn/code
+ - or -
+$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/softethervpn/code
+
+To fetch the source code from Google Code:
+$ git clone https://code.google.com/p/softether/
+
+We hope that you can reach one of the above URLs at least!
+
+
+DEAR SECURITY EXPERTS
+---------------------
+
+If you find a bug or a security vulnerability please kindly inform us
+about the problem immediately so that we can fix the security problem
+to protect a lot of users around the world as soon as possible.
+
+Our e-mail address for security reports is:
+softether-vpn-security [at] softether.org
+
+Please note that the above e-mail address is not a technical support
+inquiry address. If you need technical assistance, please visit
+http://www.softether.org/ and ask your question on the users forum.
+
+
+DISCLAIMER
+----------
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+THIS SOFTWARE IS DEVELOPED IN JAPAN, AND DISTRIBUTED FROM JAPAN,
+UNDER JAPANESE LAWS. YOU MUST AGREE IN ADVANCE TO USE, COPY, MODIFY,
+MERGE, PUBLISH, DISTRIBUTE, SUBLICENSE, AND/OR SELL COPIES OF THIS
+SOFTWARE, THAT ANY JURIDICAL DISPUTES WHICH ARE CONCERNED TO THIS
+SOFTWARE OR ITS CONTENTS, AGAINST US (SOFTETHER PROJECT, SOFTETHER
+CORPORATION, DAIYUU NOBORI OR OTHER SUPPLIERS), OR ANY JURIDICAL
+DISPUTES AGAINST US WHICH ARE CAUSED BY ANY KIND OF USING, COPYING,
+MODIFYING, MERGING, PUBLISHING, DISTRIBUTING, SUBLICENSING, AND/OR
+SELLING COPIES OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE REGARDED AS BE CONSTRUED AND
+CONTROLLED BY JAPANESE LAWS, AND YOU MUST FURTHER CONSENT TO
+EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE IN THE COURTS SITTING IN TOKYO,
+JAPAN. YOU MUST WAIVE ALL DEFENSES OF LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION
+AND FORUM NON CONVENIENS. PROCESS MAY BE SERVED ON EITHER PARTY IN
+THE MANNER AUTHORIZED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR COURT RULE.
+
+USE ONLY IN JAPAN. DO NOT USE IT IN OTHER COUNTRIES. IMPORTING THIS
+SOFTWARE INTO OTHER COUNTRIES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. SOME COUNTRIES
+PROHIBIT ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS. USING THIS SOFTWARE IN OTHER
+COUNTRIES MIGHT BE RESTRICTED.
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENT
+-------------
+
+SoftEther VPN is developed by SoftEther VPN Project at University of Tsukuba.
+Department of Computer Science has dozens of overly-enthusiastic geeks.
+Join us: http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/admission/
+
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