phpMyAdmin - Readme
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Version 4.2.1

A set of PHP-scripts to manage MySQL over the web.

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

Copyright
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Copyright (C) 1998-2000
    Tobias Ratschiller <tobias_at_ratschiller.com>

Copyright (C) 2001-2014
    Marc Delisle <marc_at_infomarc.info>
    Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch>
    Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
    Alexander M. Turek <me_at_derrabus.de>
    Michal Čihař <michal_at_cihar.com>
    Garvin Hicking <me_at_supergarv.de>
    Michael Keck <mkkeck_at_users.sourceforge.net>
    Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net>
    [check documentation for more details]

License
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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.

This program 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 General Public License for more
details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Licensing of current contributions
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Beginning on 2013-12-01, new contributions to this codebase are all licensed
under terms compatible with GPLv2-or-later.  phpMyAdmin is currently
transitioning older code to GPLv2-or-later, but work is not yet complete.

Third party licenses
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phpMyAdmin includes several third party libraries which come under their
respective licenses.

jQuery's license, which is where we got the files under js/jquery/ is
(MIT|GPL), a copy of each license is available in this repository (GPL
is available as LICENSE, MIT as js/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt).

TCPDF which is located under libraries/tcpdf is released under GPL
version 3 and the license is available as libraries/tcpdf/LICENSE.TXT.

DejaVu fonts which are located under libraries/tcpdf/fonts/ and their
license is documented in
libraries/tcpdf/fonts/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33/LICENSE.

PHP-gettext which is located under libraries/php-gettext/ is released
under GPL version 2 license which is available in the LICENSE file.

Requirements
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* PHP 5.3 or later
* MySQL 5.0 or later
* a web-browser (doh!)

Summary
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phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web.
For a summary of features, please see the documentation in the doc folder.

Download
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You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/.

More Information
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Please see the documentation in the doc folder.

Support
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See reference about support forums under http://www.phpmyadmin.net/


Enjoy!
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The phpMyAdmin Devel team


PS:

Please, don't send us emails with question like "How do I compile PHP with
MySQL-support". We just don't have the time to be your free help desk.

Please send your questions to the appropriate mailing lists / forums.  Before
contacting us, please read the documentation (especially the FAQ part).

