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+
+v. 1.0.0 (17-10-2008)
+        * First release
+     
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+Used as a Web service in the gCube Framework
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+gCube System - License
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The gCube/gCore software is licensed as Free Open Source software conveying to the EUPL (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/eupl).
+The software and documentation is provided by its authors/distributors "as is" and no expressed or 
+implied warranty is given for its use, quality or fitness for a particular case.
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+Lucio lelii (lucio.lelii@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, 
+Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo".
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+The gCube System - MetadataManager
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This work is partially funded by the European Commission in the
+context of the D4Science project (www.d4science.eu), under the 1st
+call of FP7 IST priority.
+
+
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+* Lucio Lelii (lucio.lelii@isti.cnr.it), CNR Pisa, 
+  Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo".
+  
+  
+Version and Release Date
+------------------------
+
+v. 1.0.0 (17-10-2008)
+        * First release
+        
+
+Description
+-----------
+The VREModeler allows the user to create a new VRE  
+  
+  Download information
+--------------------
+
+Source code is available from SVN:
+http://svn.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/gcube/trunk/vremanager/VREModeler
+
+Binaries can be downloaded from:
+http://diligent.di.uoa.gr/distributionSite/index.html
+
+
+Documentation 
+-------------
+Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:
+
+https://technical.wiki.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/documentation/index.php
+
+
+
+Licensing
+---------
+
+This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.
+
+
+