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<chapter id="intro">
  <title>Introduction</title>

  <sect1>
    <title>Legal Notice</title>

    <para>The Netatalk software package as well as this documentation are
    distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. A copy
    of the license is included in this documentation, as well as within the
    Netatalk source distribution. An on-line copy can be found at <ulink
    url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt</ulink></para>
  </sect1>

  <sect1>
    <title>Overview of Netatalk</title>

    <para>Netatalk is an Open Source software package that can be used to turn
    a *NIX machine into a fast, light-weight and reliable file server for
    Macintosh computers.</para>

    <para>Using Netatalk's AFP 3.4 compliant file-server leads to
    significantly higher transmission speeds for older Macs compared to
    Samba/NFS, while providing clients with the best possible user experience:
    full support for Macintosh metadata, flawlessly supporting mixed
    environments of classic Mac OS and OS X clients.</para>

    <para>It ships with range of authentication methods to accommodate any
    deployment environment. Modern macOS features such as Bonjour service
    discovery, Time Machine backups, and Spotlight indexed search are also
    supported.</para>
  </sect1>
</chapter>
