+ ngIRCd is free software and published under the
+ terms of the GNU General Public License.
+
+ -- README --
+
+ Ilja Osthoff, <ilja@glide.ath.cx>
+
+
+I. Introduction
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ngIRCd is an Open-Source server for the Internet Realy Chat (IRC), which
+is developped and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
+Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
+generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
+"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
+
+
+
+II. Status
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+At present, the ngIRCd is under active development, some features are not
+implemented, some only partly.
+
+Till today (more or less complete) implemented IRC-commands:
+
+ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, ERROR, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL,
+LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART,
+PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT, TIME, TOPIC,
+USERHOST, USER, VERSION, WHO, WHOIS.
+
+
+III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- no problems with servers which have dynamic ip-adresses
+- simple, easy understandable configuration file,
+- freely published C-Sourcecode,
+- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
+- supported platforms (tested versions): AIX (3.2.5), A/UX (3.0.1), FreeBSD
+ (4.5), HP-UX (10.20), IRIX (6.5), Linux (2.x), Mac OS X (10.x), NetBSD
+ (1.5.2/i386, 1.5.3/m68k), Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6), and Windows with Cygwin.
+
+
+IV. Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory (in english). Please
+have a look at "doc/de/" if you are looking for german documentation.