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                           Concerto

Concerto is a free software project aimed at creating a web-based distributed digital signage system. It is written in the PHP language and includes the use of several other projects.

Licensing

Concerto is Copyright (C) 2009 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Student Senate Web Technologies Group)

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.

Projects

The Concerto codebase includes the work of several other free software projects.

• The Free Sans font from the GNU FreeFont project (http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/) is used for rendering text in template previews.

• The administration panel and screen displays make use of the JQuery JavaScript library (http://jquery.com). Copyright (C) 2008 John Resig, dual-licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses. Several similarly licensed components of the JQuery UI project are also included.

• The phpCAS client (http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/phpCAS) is used to interface to the CAS authentication system. Copyright (C) 2003-2008, The ESUP-Portail consortium & the JA-SIG Collaborative. phpCAS also includes an integrated copy of domxml-php4-php5.php (http://alexandre.alapetite.net/doc-alex/domxml-php4-php5/)

• The Python Open Document Converter Copyright (C) 2008 Mirko Nasato, Licensed under the GNU LGPL v2.1

Installation

See install/INSTALL for information. A diagnostic script is located at install/diagnostics.php to help troubleshoot configuration errors.

Extra

For additional information, visit our website: http://www.concerto-signage.com