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+=======================================================
+    PhpGedView
+
+    Version 4.0
+    Copyright 2005 John Finlay and others
+
+    This and other information can be found online at
+    http://www.PhpGedView.net
+
+    # $Id$
+=======================================================
+
+CONTENTS
+     1.  LICENSE
+     2.  INTRODUCTION
+     3.  CUSTOM MENUS
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+LICENSE
+
+webtrees: Web based Family History software
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 webtrees development team.
+ *
+ * Derived from PhpGedView
+Copyright (C) 2002 to 2005  John Finlay and Others
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+See the file GPL.txt included with this software for more
+detailed licensing information.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+INTRODUCTION
+
+Modules are additional software that can be added to the core PhpGedView.
+They provide additional functionality not part of the core PhpGedView 
+distribution. Some modules integrate very tightly with the PhpGedView
+software while others are separate software that loosely links to PhpGedView,
+such as the PunBB bulletin board system
+
+Like PhpGedView, modules available for download are Open Source software that
+has been produced by people from many countries freely donating their time
+and talents to the project, though there is nothing to prevent someone from
+developing a source module that is not open source. 
+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+CUSTOM MENUS
+
+With PGV version 4.0, there is a new system in place for adding menus to the
+main PGV Menu bar.  To do this, create a file called menu.php in your module
+folder.  This menu.php should implement an interface which implements the 
+getMenu() method. The name of the class must be prefixed by the module name 
+and an underscore.  
+
+As an example, if you were building the "acme" module, you would could the file
+"acme/menu.php" which would have a class definition similar to the following:
+ 
+class acme_ModuleMenu { 
+	function &getMenu() { 
+		$menu = new Menu(); 
+		return $menu; 
+	} 
+} 
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