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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><title xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Chapter 1. Introduction</title><meta xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.50.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Pilot-DB Users Manual"/><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Pilot-DB Users Manual"/><link rel="previous" href="index.html" title="Pilot-DB Users Manual"/><link rel="next" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. Installation"/></head><body><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="chapter"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="titlepage"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="introduction.chapter"/>Chapter 1. Introduction</h2></div></div><fake><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   Pilot-DB is a PalmOS database application, which allows users to create their own databases, each database
   having its own records. You can then enter information in the databases, edit it and view it as desired. Pilot-DB
   was created to manage all types of professional and personal information. You can store, for instance, all kinds of
   information about the books in your library or about the inventories of the various products stocked in your warehouses.
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   Pilot-DB is distributed under the GPL licence, which implies that it is freely available
   together with complete source code on our web site. You may redistribute Pilot-DB as desired. You may also
   modify the source code
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    but in that case you are obliged to redistribute the source code as per the GPL licence.
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    Pilot-DB supports the use of plugins that allow the user to add functionality to the main application
    without modifying its source code. The plugin system is available under the LGPL licence, which authorizes you to
    distribute plugins as per licences other than the GPL.
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   The URLs for Pilot-DB are at:
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