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+Biboumi
+=======
+
+Biboumi is an XMPP gateway that connects to IRC servers and translates
+between the two protocols. It can be used to access IRC channels using any
+XMPP client as if these channels were XMPP MUCs.
+
+It is written in modern C++14 and makes great efforts to have as little
+dependencies and to be as simple as possible.
+
+The goal is to provide a way to access most of IRC features using any XMPP
+client.  It doesn’t however try to provide a complete mapping of the
+features of both worlds simply because this is not useful and most probably
+impossible.  For example all IRC modes are not all translatable into an XMPP
+features.  Some of them are (like +m (mute) or +o (operator) modes), but
+some others are IRC-specific.  If IRC is the limiting factor (for example
+you cannot have a non-ASCII nickname on IRC) then biboumi doesn’t try to
+work around this issue: it just enforces the rules of the IRC server by
+telling the user that he/she must choose an ASCII-only nickname.  An
+important goal is to keep the software (and its code) light and simple.
+
+
+Install
+=======
+Refer to the [INSTALL][] file.
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+Read [the documentation](doc/biboumi.1.md).
+
+Authors
+=======
+Florent Le Coz (louiz’) <louiz@louiz.org>
+
+
+Contact/Support
+===============
+* XMPP ChatRoom: biboumi@muc.poez.io
+* Report a bug:  https://dev.louiz.org/projects/biboumi/issues/new
+
+To contribute, the preferred way is to commit your changes on some
+publicly-available git repository (your own, or github
+(https://github.com/louiz/biboumi), or a fork on https://lab.louiz.org) and
+to notify the developers with a ticket on the bug tracker
+(https://dev.louiz.org/projects/biboumi/issues/new), a pull request on
+github or a merge request on gitlab.
+
+Optionally you can come discuss your changes on the XMPP chat room,
+beforehand.
+
+
+Licence
+=======
+Biboumi is Free Software.
+(learn more: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)
+
+Biboumi is released under the zlib license.
+Please read the COPYING file for details.
+
+[INSTALL]: INSTALL