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+<section>
+	<title>What's this</title>
+	<para>
+This is an implementation of syslog daemon and client for native win32 platform.
+It complies to <ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt">RFC 3164</ulink>,
+<quote>The BSD Syslog Protocol</quote>.
+	</para>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+	<title>What for</title>
+	<para>
+Maybe you are:
+		<itemizedlist>
+			<listitem>
+				<para>
+porting existing UNIX software to native win32 platform;
+				</para>
+			</listitem>
+			<listitem>
+				<para>
+writing portable software;
+				</para>
+			</listitem>
+			<listitem>
+				<para>
+writing pure windows software but understanding that EventLog sucks and looking for an alternative.
+				</para>
+			</listitem>
+		</itemizedlist>
+I hope that in any of these cases this stuff will be useful for you.
+	</para>
+	<para>
+Of course, you may just use the daemon as the network message collector.
+But in this case you better look at UNIX.
+	</para>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+	<title>Legal issues</title>
+	<para>
+The source code of the daemon and the client library IS NOT COPYRIGHTED
+and is offered for use in the public domain.
+You may use, modify or distribute it freely.
+	</para>
+	<para>
+However, the project includes syslog header file, logger utility and the test based on it.
+This stuff is distributed under the
+<ulink url="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php">BSD license</ulink>.
+	</para>
+	<para>
+The daemon uses <ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/">Glib</ulink>,
+<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/">libiconv</ulink> and
+<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/">libintl</ulink>
+libraries and the binary distribution includes them under the
+<ulink url="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php">LGPL license</ulink>.
+	</para>
+</section>