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# Cosmopolitan
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Cosmopolitan builds run natively on most platforms without dependencies,
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because it implements the subset of the C library, compiler runtimes and
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system call interfaces that've achieved near universal consensus amongst
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all major platforms, e.g. Linux/BSD/XNU/NT. Containerization is achieved
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by having binaries also be ZIP files. Modern static stock GNU toolchains
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are provided in a hermetic mono repo for maximum historical determinism.
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Here's how you can get started by printing cat videos inside a terminal:
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make -j8 o//tool/viz/printvideo.com
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wget https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/cats.mpg
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o//tool/viz/printvideo.com cats.mpg
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unzip -vl o//tool/viz/printvideo.com
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Cosmopolitan provides a native development environment similar to those
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currently being offered by RedHat, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. We're
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different in two ways: (1) we're not a platform therefore we don't have
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any commercial interest in making our tooling work better on one rather
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than another; and (2) we're only focused on catering towards interfaces
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all platforms agree upon. Goal is software that stands the test of time
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without the costs and restrictions cross-platform distribution entails.
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That makes Cosmopolitan an excellent fit for writing small CLI programs
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that do things like heavyweight numerical computations as a subprocess.
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## Licensing
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Cosmopolitan is Free Software licensed under the GPLv2. The build config
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**will embed all linked sources inside your binaries** so the compliance
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is easy while facilitating trust and transparency similar to JavaScript.
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You can audit your source filesystem using ZIP GUIs e.g. WIN10, InfoZip.
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### Commercial Support
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If you want to be able to distribute binaries in binary form only, then
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please send $1,000 to jtunney@gmail.com on PayPal for a license lasting
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1 year. Please be sure to provide your contact information, and details
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on whether or not the license is for an individual or a corporation. If
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you want your license to last 5 years, send $10,000 to the author above
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who is Justine Tunney <jtunney@gmail.com>. This README will be updated,
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if pricing and other details should change. Reach out for more details.
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## Contributing
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We'd love to accept your patches! Before we can take them, we have to
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jump through one legal hurdle. Please write an email to Justine Tunney
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<jtunney@gmail.com> saying you agree to give her copyright ownership to
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any changes you contribute to Cosmopolitan. We need to do that in order
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to dual license Cosmopolitan. Otherwise we can't tax corporations that
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don't want to share their code with the community.
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