In order to run Diaspora for development, there are a few external dependencies in getting your environment set up:
-[Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) - The Ruby programming language. (We're using 1.8. Comes preinstalled on Mac OS X.)
-[Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) - The Ruby programming language. __(We're using 1.8. Comes preinstalled on Mac OS X.)__
-[MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org) - A snappy noSQL database.
-[OpenSSL](http://www.openssl.org/) - An encryption implementation. (Comes preinstalled on Mac OS X and later versions of Ubuntu.)
-[ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) - An Image processing library used to resize uploaded photos.
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More general info and updates about the project can be found on our [blog](http://joindiaspora.com), [twitter](http://twitter.com/joindiaspora). Also, be sure to join the official [mailing list](http://http://eepurl.com/Vebk).
License
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Copyright 2010 Diaspora Inc.
Diaspora is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Diaspora is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with Diaspora. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
