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-        <h1 lang="en">Electronic Payments for Libre Society!</h1>
-        <h1 lang="de">Elektronisches Bezahlen f&uuml;r eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft!</h1>
-        <h1 lang="fr">Paiements électroniques pour société libre!</h1>
-        <p class="lead">We are building Taler, a new electronic payment system for privacy and security.</p>
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+        <h1 lang="en">Taler for Developers</h1>
+        <h1 lang="de">Taler f&uuml;r Entwickler</h1>
+        <h1 lang="fr"></h1>
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           <h2>Libre</h2>
-          <p>Taler is free software implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications.</p>
+          <p>Taler is free software implementing an open protocol. Anybody is welcome to inspect our code and integrate our reference implementation into their applications.
+             Different components of Taler are being made available under different licenses. The Affero GPLv3+ is used for the Mint, the LGPLv3+ is used for reference
+             code demonstrating integration with merchant platforms, and licenses like Apache/Mozilla/GPLv3+ are used for wallets and related customer-facing software.
+             We are open for constructive suggestions for maximizing the adoption of this libre payment platform.</p>
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           <h2>RESTful</h2>
-          <p>Taler is designed to work on the Internet. Using a so-called RESTful protocol over HTTP or HTTPS, Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web applications.</p>
+          <p>Taler is designed to work on the Internet.  To ensure that Taler payments can work with restrictive network setups, Taler uses a RESTful protocol over
+             HTTP or HTTPS. Taler's security does not depend upon the use of HTTPS, but obviously merchants may choose to offer HTTPS for consistency and because
+             it generally is better for privacy compared to HTTP.  Taler uses JSON to encode structure data, making it easy to integrate Taler with existing Web
+             applications.  Taler's protocol is documented in detail <a href="http://api.taler.net/">here</a></p>
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           <h2>Code</h2>
-          <p>.</p>
+          <p>Taler is currently primarily developed by a research team at Inria and TU Munich. However, contributions from anyone are welcome.
+             Our Git repositories can be cloned using the Git and HTTP access methods against <tt>git.taler.net</tt> with the name of the
+             respective repository.  A list of public repositories can be found in our <a href="http://www.git.taler.net/">GitWeb</a>.</p>
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           <h2>Documentation</h2>
-          <p>.</p>
+          <p>In addition to this website, the <a href="http://www.git.taler.net/">documented code</a>
+             and the <a href="http://api.taler.net/">API documentation</a>, we are in the process of
+             preparing a comprehensive design document which will be published here soon.</p>
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