= Components of LiquidFeedback =
LiquidFeedback is splitted into multiple components:
- [[Core|LiquidFeedback Core]], the main component of LiquidFeedback
- [[Frontend|LiquidFeedback Frontend]], providing user frontend and programming interface
- [[lfapi|LiquidFeedback API Server "lfapi"]], implementing the [[API|LiquidFeedback API specification]]

More applications are available from [[RelatedApplications|other software projects]].

= Documentation =

- [[installation|How to install LiquidFeedback 2.0 on a Debian system with lighttpd]]

= Communication =

== Mailing lists ==
Currently there are two mailing lists related to the development of LiquidFeedback:
- [http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce Announce] Release related and general announcements, english language ([http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/pipermail/announce/ Public archive])
- [http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/main Main] Main development list, english language ([http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/pipermail/main/ Public archive])

== Contacting the maintainers ==
You can contact the maintainers of LiquidFeedback at [[Image(maintainer_email_address.png, nolink)]]. Please write in english or german.


= Licensing policy =
We think software used for democratic purposes must be free in any possible meaning. For this reason we only accept code and dependencies being public domain, licensed under MIT or BSD style license or similar, and we are 
publishing the software under [http://www.public-software-group.org/licenses MIT license]. We do not accept anything infected by viral licenses like GPL. If you want to contribute code, we need a signed license agreement from you. It's available from the [http://www.public-software-group.org/contribute website of our association].

= Links =

== Project related ==
- http://www.liquidfeedback.org/ The main blog and website of the project. (currently only available in german)
- http://www.public-software-group.org/ Website of our association for publishing software. 
- http://www.public-software-group.org/projects/liquid_feedback/ Project related pages at the website of our association including official releases of the core and the frontend.
- http://www.interaktive-demokratie.org/ (german)

== Testing instance run by us ==
- http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/lf2/

== Productive instances with public read access run by users ==
- http://lqpp.de/ (german)
- http://lqfb.piratenpartei.de (german)

== Dependencies ==
- [http://www.public-software-group.org/webmcp WebMCP]
- [http://www.public-software-group.org/rocketwiki RocketWiki]
- [http://www.public-software-group.org/pub/projects/rocketwiki/liquid_feedback_edition/ RocketWiki LQFB edition]
- [http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL]