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+* Copyright and License Information *
+
+Copyright Microsoft Corporation
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
+may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+
+You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+implied.  See the License for the specific language governing
+permissions and limitations under the License.
+
+* Notes about changes to the Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for PHP for SQL Server *
+
+For details about the changes included in this release, please see our blog at
+http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp or see the SQLSRV_Readme.htm 
+file that is part of the download package.
+
+* Notes about compiling the Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for PHP for SQL Server *
+
+Prerequisites: 
+
+* You must first be able to build PHP without including these
+extensions.  For help with doing this, see the official PHP website,
+http://php.net.
+
+To compile the SQLSRV301 and PDO_SQLSRV301:
+
+1) Copy the source code directories from this repository into the ext
+subdirectory.
+
+2) run buildconf.bat to rebuild the configure.js script to include the
+new drivers.
+
+3) run "cscript configure.js --enable-sqlsrv=shared --enable-pdo
+--with-pdo-sqlsrv=shared <other options>" to generate the makefile.
+Run "cscript configure.js --help" to see what other options are
+available.  It is possible (and even probable) that other extensions
+will have to be disabled or enabled for the compile to succeed.
+Search bing.com for configurations that have worked for other people.
+
+  3a) It might be possible to compile these extensions as non-shared
+  but that configuration has not been tested.
+
+4) run "nmake".  It is suggested that you run the entire build.  If you
+wish to do so, run "nmake clean" first.
+
+5) To install the resulting build, run "nmake install" or just copy
+php_sqlsrv.dll and php_pdo_sqlsrv.dll to your PHP extension directory.
+Also enable them within your PHP installation's php.ini file.
+
+This software has been compiled and tested under PHP 5.3.6 and later
+using the Visual C++ 2008 and 2010, Express and Standard compilers.
+
+* Note about version.h *
+
+The version numbers in version.h in the source do not match the
+version numbers in the supported PHP extension.