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-.. _introduction:
-
-Introduction
-============
-
-The LEAP Client
----------------
-.. if yoy change this, change it also in the index.rst
-The **LEAP Client** is a :ref:`GPL3 Licensed <gpl3>` multiplatform client, written in python using PyQt4, that supports the features offered by :ref:`the LEAP Platform <leapplatform>`. Currently is being tested on Linux, support for OSX and Windows will come soon.
-
-Features
-^^^^^^^^
-
-The LEAP Client allows to easily secure communications.
-
-- Provider selection
-- User registration
-- Encrypted Internet Proxy support (autoconfigured service using openvpn).
-
-Coming soon
-^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-- Encrypted email
-
-.. _leapplatform:
-
-The LEAP Platform
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The LEAP Provider Platform is the server-side part of LEAP that is run by service providers. It consists of a set of complementary packages and recipes to automate the maintenance of LEAP services in a hardened GNU/Linux environment. Our goal is to make it painless for service providers and ISPs to deploy a secure communications platform.
-
-Read `more about the LEAP Platform <https://leap.se/en/technology/platform>`_ or `check out the code <https://github.com/leapcode/leap_platform>`_.
-
-
-.. _philosophy:
-
-Philosophy
-----------
-
-The Right to Whisper
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-LEAP fights for *the right to whisper*.
-
-Like free speech, the right to whisper is an necessary precondition for **a free society**. Without it, civil society and political freedom become impossible. As the importance of digital communication for civic participation increases, so does the importance of the ability to digitally whisper.
-
-Unfortunately, advances in surveillance technology are rapidly eroding the ability to whisper. This is a worldwide problem, not simply an issue for people in repressive contexts. Acceptance of poor security in the West creates a global standard of insecure practice, even among civil society actors who urgently need the ability to communicate safely.
-
-The stakes could not be higher. Activists are dying because their communication technologies betray their identity, location, and conversations. When activists attempt to secure their communications, they face confusing software, a dearth of secure providers, and a greater risk of being flagged as potential troublemakers. In other words, problems of usability, availability, and adoption.
-
-Our vision
-^^^^^^^^^^
-The LEAP vision is to attack these problems of usability, availability, and adoption head on.
-
-To address **usability**:
- we are creating a complete system where the user-facing client software is
- tightly coupled with the cloud-base components of the system. All our software
- will be auto-configuring, prevent users from practicing insecure behavior, and
- primarily limit the configuration options to those moments when the user is placing i
- their trust in another entity.
-
-To address **availability**:
- LEAP will work closely with service providers to adopt our open source, automatedl
- platform for running high-availability communication services. By lowering the
- barriers of entry to become a reliable provider, we can increase the supply and
- decrease the cost of secure communications.
-
-To address **adoption**:
- the LEAP platform layers higher security on top of existing protocols to allow
- users a gradual transition path and backward compatibility. Our goal is to create
- services that are attractive in terms of features, usability, and price for users in
- both democratic and repressive contexts.
-
-All contributions should have these three points in mind.
-
-.. _`gpl3`:
-
-GPLv3 License
---------------
-
-.. image:: gpl.*
-
-The LEAP Client is released under the terms of the `GNU GPL version 3`_ or later.
-
-::
-
- The LEAP Client is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- The LEAP Client 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 General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with the LEAP Client. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
-
-.. _`GNU GPL version 3`: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
-
-.. ??? include whole version?
- .. include:: ../COPYING