James Lee
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This is all documentation changes -- adds THIRD-PARTY licenses, updates readme to be more like a readme, and moves the old readme to a COPYING file. Note that while this lands pull #388, it skips the Meterpreter changes that were brought in almost certainly by accident. Squashed commit of the following: commit7125509e8bAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Wed May 23 13:12:45 2012 -0600 Add license info for rkelly and anemone commit14367041c3Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Wed May 23 12:49:14 2012 -0600 Add licenses for gemcache stuff to THIRD-PARTY commitc22138cf24Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 17:24:14 2012 -0600 Add useful links commit47a9df3d54Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 16:41:21 2012 -0600 Add copyright notices commit687567dfe2Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 16:28:17 2012 -0600 Give THIRD-PARTY an md extension Should make display on Github nicer commite322676413Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 16:22:55 2012 -0600 Break licenses for bundled stuff into THIRD-PARTY commite6463c6e7fAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 14:06:01 2012 -0600 Move README to COPYING commit8a6a6bb63fAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 12:53:31 2012 -0600 Better wording. commit5ac46d4f68Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 12:51:58 2012 -0600 Add a little more explanitory text to Contributing. commit54dab50d98Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 12:37:09 2012 -0600 Missed one commite23c80f01eAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 12:36:33 2012 -0600 Better links commit47b944ec65Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 12:26:12 2012 -0600 Meh, GFM doesn't like my headings commit12a7651e91Author: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 12:24:42 2012 -0600 Initial stab at a better README commite3a0d4731bAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Mon May 14 11:59:41 2012 -0600 LLC -> Inc. commit5b32b4245cAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Sun May 13 17:50:04 2012 -0600 Whitespace at EOL commite6719f18abAuthor: James Lee <egypt@metasploit.com> Date: Sun May 13 17:48:50 2012 -0600 Only open /dev/null if we need it
Metasploit
The Metasploit Framework is released under a BSD-style license. See COPYING for more details.
The latest version of this software is available from http://metasploit.com/
Bug tracking and development information can be found at: https://dev.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/
The public GitHub source repository can be found at: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
Questions and suggestions can be sent to: msfdev(at)metasploit.com
The framework mailing list is the place to discuss features and ask for help. To subscribe, visit the following web page: https://mail.metasploit.com/mailman/listinfo/framework
The mailing list archives are available from: https://mail.metasploit.com/pipermail/framework/
Installing
Generally, you should use the installer which contains all dependencies and will get you up and running with a few clicks. See the Dev Environment Setup if you'd like to deal with dependencies on your own.
Using Metasploit
Metasploit can do all sorts of things. The first thing you'll want to do
is start msfconsole, but after that, you'll probably be best served by
reading some of the great tutorials online:
Contributing
See the Dev Environment Setup guide on github which will walk you through the whole process starting from installing all the dependencies, to cloning the repository, and finally to submitting a pull request.