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  14 <h1>Introduction</h1>
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  16   <p>Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites.
  17   It's an ongoing development project designed to support a <a href="?file=philosophy.html">social constructionist</a> framework of education. </p>
  18   <p>Moodle is provided freely as <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html" target="_top">
  19   Open Source</a> software (under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" target="_top">
  20   GNU Public License</a>). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that
  21   you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle
  22   provided that you agree to: <strong>provide the source to others</strong>; <strong>not
  23   modify or remove the original license and copyrights</strong>, and <strong>apply
  24   this same license to any derivative work</strong>. Read the license for full
  25   details and please contact the <a href="http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=1&amp;course=1">copyright
  26   holder</a> directly if you have any questions.
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  28   <p>Moodle will run on any computer that can run <a href="http://www.php.net/" target="_top">
  29   PHP</a>, and can support many types of database (particularly <a href="http://www.mysql.com/" target="_top">MySQL</a>).</p>
  30   <p>The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
  31   Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists.&nbsp;
  32   It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something,
  33   doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often
  34   leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was
  35   developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching
  36   an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.</p>
  37   <p>Come <a href="http://moodle.org/community/" target="_top">moodle with us</a>!</p>
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