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0.0 Contents

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Webmasters!
3.0 Getting Started
4.0 Developer Documentation
5.0 Release History
6.0 License


1.0 Introduction
Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale,
archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix (sometimes spelled heretrix, or
misspelled or missaid as heratrix/heritix/heretix/heratix) is an archaic word
for heiress (woman who inherits). Since our crawler seeks to collect and
preserve the digital artifacts of our culture for the benefit of future
researchers and generations, this name seemed apt.


2.0 Webmasters!
Heritrix is designed to respect the robots.txt 
<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html> exclusion directives and META robots
tags <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#meta>. If you notice our
crawler behaving poorly, please send us email at archive-crawler-agent *at*
lists *dot* sourceforge *dot* net. 


3.0 Getting Started
See the User Manual at ./docs/articles/user_manual/index.html or at
<http://crawler.archive.org/articles/user_manual/index.html>.


4.0 Developer Documentation
See ./docs/articles/developer_manual/index.html or
<http://crawler.archive.org/articles/developer_manual/index.html>.


5.0 Release History

See the Heritrix Release Notes in the local directory
docs/articles/releasenotes/index.html if this is a binary release or
at http://crawler.archive.org/articles/releasenotes/index.html.


6.0 License

Heritrix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or any
later version.
                                                                                
Heritrix 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 Lesser Public License for more details.
                                                                                
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
along with Heritrix (See LICENSE.txt); if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307  USA
                                                                                
For the licenses for libraries used by Heritrix and included in its
distribution, see below in section '8.0 Dependencies'.
