OpenSearch is an API for scanning topic related community web sites that support this API. This archive contains an experimental frontend and sample implementations for a few common CMS and portal scripts. The API description is in spec/ and sample implementations can be found in the backends/ dir. The frontend/ could be installed wherever you install a backend so users get instant access to related sites. Unless specified otherwise the whole archive is Public Domain and thus can be integrated into ANY other package without restrictions and without strings. It there could be put under whatever license you wish. See http://opensearch.berlios.de/OpenSearch for the project Wiki and the current spec (ALL THIS IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT!)