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-# OpenWebStart
+# OpenWebStart 🚀
+
+This repository contains all sources that are needed to build [OpenWebStart](https://openwebstart.com)
+releases based on the [IcedTea-Web](https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web) core functionality that
+is developed at the [AdoptOpenJDK community](https://adoptopenjdk.net).
+
+![Rocket](readme/rocket.png)
+
+## About OpenWebStart
+
+Java Web Start (JWS) was deprecated in Java 9, and starting with Java 11, Oracle removed JWS from their JDK distributions.
+This means that clients that have the latest version of Java installed can no longer use JWS-based applications.
+And since public support of Java 8 has ended in Q2/2019, companies no longer get any updates and security fixes for Java Web Start.
+
+OpenWebStart offers a user friendly installer to use Web Start / JNLP functionality with future Java versions without depending on a specific Java vendor or distribution.
+The first goal of the project is to target Java 8 LTS versions while support for Java 11 LTS will come in near future.
+
+While we ([Karakun](https://dev.karakun.com)) develop user friendly installers to use a Java vendor independ approach for Web Start, we also help to integrate Web Start functionally in the Java 8 LTS releases of AdoptOpenJDK.
+Therefor all Web Start functionality is developed in the [IcedTea-Web](https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web) repository of the AdoptOpenJDK organization together with RedHat and other members of the AdoptOpenJDK community.
+Therefore this repository only contains sources that are needed to create enterprise ready and user friendly native installers for OpenWebStart.
+
+## License
+
+The project is released as open source under the [GPLv2 with exceptions](LICENSE.md).
+
+![Footer](readme/footer.png)