# AxCrypt GPL ReadMe AxCrypt File Encryption Software - Free Personal Privacy and Security for Windows 2000/XP/Vista or later with AES-128 File Encryption, Compression and transparent Decrypt and Open in the original application. Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Svante Seleborg/Axantum Software AB, All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; see the license for details. The present version is compiled from the GPL sources published on SourceForge - this is not an official, digitally signed release. Please refer to the AxCrypt homepage for official releases. If you find AxCrypt useful and would like to contribute, a voluntary donation of $5 or $10 would be greatly appreciated. You may use the PayPal icon on the homepage for convenience, or specify axcrypt@axondata.se as the recipient manually. Do you like free open source software? You can help motivate the people writing them by nominating your favorites for an Open Source Award, and you can also rate AxCrypt and other software at osDir.com. For commercial enquiries about the software, custom modifications, corporate branded versions or consulting services please contact me via e-mail. (Axantum Software AB is the new name since September 1, 2004 of the company making AxCrypt. It was formerly named Axon Data.) Beta versions: If you'd like to try the latest beta, please go download it and try it out, but remember it is a beta release. This means it may not be stable and is in development. We'd also appreciate any and all feedback on beta releases - especially if it works well! If you sign up as a user for free at Sourceforge.net, you can also be notified of new beta releases.