= Copland IoC Container

Copland is an Inversion of Control (IoC) container, in the same vein as
HiveMind[http://jakarta.apache.org/hivemind],
Spring[http://www.springframework.org], and
PicoContainer[http://www.picocontainer.org] (in the Java universe).  It borrows
concepts, terminology, and even some architecture from HiveMind, with the exception
that it uses YAML[http://www.yaml.org] for the package descriptors instead of XML.

== Downloading

You may download Copland from Copland's RubyForge project, at http://rubyforge.org/projects/copland.
Copland is distributed both as a RubyGem, and as a Ruby library.

== Installation

Copland is distributed as a gem, which makes it extremely easy to download, install, and
use.  However, it requires that you have RubyGems[http://rubygems.rubyforge.org] installed,
first.

Assuming you have RubyGems installed, all you have to do is:

  gem --remote-install copland

This will install the latest version of Copland.

Copland is also distributed as a Ruby library.  It's not as easy to install this way,
but it works.  Simply grab the latest copland package from the website, untar it, and
install it by typing:

  ruby setup.rb

Or, if you want a little more control over the installation:

  ruby setup.rb --help

This will show you the options that are available to you, and then you can do each stage
of the installation manually:

  ruby setup.rb config
  ruby setup.rb setup
  ruby setup.rb install

== Manual

For more information about Copland, such as an overview and tutorials, see the Copland
manual at http://copland.rubyforge.org.

== Credits

Thanks go to:

* Matz, for creating Ruby in the first place.
* Howard Lewis Ship, for the HiveMind Java framework that inspired Copland.

== License

Copland is copyright (c) 2004 Jamis Buck.  It is free software, and may be redistributed
under the terms of the BSD licence:

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

      * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
        this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

      * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
        notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
        documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

      * The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote
        products derived from this software without specific prior written
        permission.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
  AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
  DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
  FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
  DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
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  CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
  OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
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The Copland manual and all software used to build it are distributed under the
Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Creative Commons license.  Distribute it and modify it all you
want, but give me credit and distribute your changes under an identical license.