This package contains the framework for a project called DI/ODE which
was undertaken by engineers at Sendmail, Inc..  Sendmail has chosen
to Open Source portions of this project, and these components are 
contained in this package.

Some pieces of this software were picked up by the Sendmail engineers
with existing Open Source licenses.  In these cases, the License under
which those files were originally released is binding, and these licenses
are reflected in the source files themselves.  All other source files
are released under the license detailed in the file LICENSE in this 
directory.  Do not redistribute this package without both this README
file and the LICENSE file intact.

DI/ODE stands for Distributed I/O Development Environment.  It is a 
user-land, unobtrusive set of libraries and back-end packages that 
allow applications to interface with an arbitrarily scalable, robust,
distributed network of storage servers.

This package will probably not build into an immediately useful system
without a great deal of work.  Therefore, one shouldn't be trying to
build this package in order to scratch an immediate itch.  This should
be viewed as a toolkit or framework from which useful projects can be
built, although with much work.  The engineers who started this development
hope to turn this information into a useful project someday... .