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+Lasso
+=====
+                                  Current homepage: http://lasso.entrouvert.org
+
+Lasso (Liberty Alliance Single Sign On) is a free (GNU GPL) implementation
+of the Liberty Alliance specifications.  Those defines processes for
+federated identities, single signon and related protocols.  Lasso provides
+both a C library and bindings for different languages (Python and JAVA for
+now).
+
+  Liberty Alliance Project homepage: http://www.project-liberty.org
+
+
+The latest version of Lasso can be found on the labs.libre-entreprise.org
+website, <http://labs.libre-entreprise.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31>
+
+Lasso has several mailing lists:
+
+ - lasso-devel@lists.labs.libre-entreprise.org:
+
+   The mailing list for Lasso users and developers; discussions about both
+   development and deployment of Lasso have their place on thist list.
+    <http://lists.labs.libre-entreprise.org/mailman/listinfo/lasso-devel>
+ 
+ - lasso-cvs-commits@lists.labs.libre-entreprise.org:
+
+   This list just distributes notices about commits to the Lasso CVS tree.
+   It has no discussions, and it is not interesting unless you wish to
+   take part in development. 
+    <http://lists.labs.libre-entreprise.org/mailman/listinfo/lasso-cvs-commits>
+
+
+Lasso was originally written by Nicolas Clapies and Valery Febvre.  Please
+see the file AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLog
+for a detailed listing of all contributions.
+
+Copyright (c) 2004 Entr'ouvert
+
+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; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+In addition, as a special exception, Entr'ouvert gives permission to link
+the code of its release of Lasso with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL"
+library (or with modified versions of it that use the same license as the
+"OpenSSL" library), and distribute the linked executables.  You must obey
+the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used
+other than "OpenSSL".  If you modify this file, you may extend this
+exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.
+If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
+version.
+