README: Import README sections from 4.4 branch into master

We had a README file in our release branches, this commit grabs few useful
sections from that file into master's README file.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
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Rohit Yadav 2014-08-05 17:44:08 +02:00
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## Notice of Cryptographic Software
This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently
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The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has
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The following provides more details on the included cryptographic software:
CloudStack makes use of JaSypt cryptographic libraries
CloudStack has a system requirement of MySQL, and uses native database encryption
functionality.
CloudStack makes use of the Bouncy Castle general-purpose encryption library.
CloudStack can optionally interacts with and controls OpenSwan-based VPNs.
CloudStack has a dependency on Apache WSS4J as part of the AWSAPI implementation.
CloudStack has a dependency on and makes use of JSch - a java SSH2 implementation.
## Downloading
@ -97,6 +147,13 @@ several communications channels, the mailing lists are the most active and the
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@ -110,7 +167,7 @@ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK
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http://cloudstack.apache.org/developers.html
For more details please see our contributing page:
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http://cloudstack.apache.org/contribute.html
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