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— **SENAITE.CORE**: *the heart of SENAITE.LIMS, the evolution of Bika LIMS*

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Introduction
============

SENAITE.CORE is an Open Source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for enterprise environments, especially focused to behave with excellent performance and stability.

This software is a direct derivative work of the Bika-LIMS software and comes with the same user interface.


Installation
============

SENAITE.CORE provides the core functionalities and entities used by `SENAITE.LIMS <https://github.com/senaite/senaite.lims>`_.  It is intended to be imported automatically as a dependency of SENAITE.LIMS and other SENAITE products, and it should not be installed directly unless you know what you are doing.


Contribute
==========

We want contributing to SENAITE.CORE to be fun, enjoyable, and educational for anyone, and everyone. This project adheres to the `Contributor Covenant <https://github.com/senaite/senaite.core/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>`_. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior.

Contributions go far beyond pull requests and commits. Although we love giving you the opportunity to put your stamp on SENAITE.CORE, we also are thrilled to receive a variety of other contributions. Please, read `Contributing to senaite.core document <https://github.com/senaite/senaite.core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_.


Feedback and support
====================

* `Gitter channel <https://gitter.im/senaite/Lobby>`_
* `Users list <https://sourceforge.net/projects/senaite/lists/senaite-users>`_


License
=======
SENAITE.CORE
Copyright (C) 2018 Senaite Foundation

This software, henceforth "SENAITE.CORE", an add-on for
`Plone software <https://plone.org/>`_, is a derivative work of BIKALIMS_.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the `GNU General Public License version 2 <./LICENSE>`_ as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program 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.

SENAITE.CORE uses third party libraries that are distributed under their own
terms (see LICENSE-3RD-PARTY.rst)


.. Links

.. _BIKALIMS: https://github.com/bikalims/bika.lims
