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Introduction
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Zope is an open-source web application server.

This document provides some general information about Zope and provides
links to other documents.

Documentation can be found at https://zope.readthedocs.io.

Installation
============

Installation information can be found at
https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL-buildout.html

Note that you *cannot* simply do ``pip install Zope``, because you need
specific versions of all dependencies. Follow the documentation to
ensure you get the correct versions, or else installation is very
likely to fail.

License
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The Zope License is included in ``LICENSE.txt``.

Bug tracker
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Bugs reports should be made through the Zope bugtracker at
https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/issues.  A bug report should
contain detailed information about how to reproduce the bug.
