ndn-cxx is a C++17 library implementing Named Data Networking (NDN) primitives
that can be used to write various NDN applications. The library is currently being
used by the following projects:

• NFD - NDN Forwarding Daemon
• NLSR - Named-data Link-State Routing protocol
• ndn-tools - Essential NDN command-line tools
• ndn-svs - State Vector Sync library
• PSync - Partial and full Sync library
• ChronoSync - Sync library for distributed real-time applications (deprecated)
• NAC - Name-based Access Control library
• NDNCERT - NDN certificate management protocol
• repo-ng - NDN repository implementation in C++ (deprecated)
• ndn-traffic-generator - Simple NDN traffic generator

Documentation

See docs/INSTALL.rst for compilation and installation instructions.

Extensive documentation is available on the library's homepage.

Reporting bugs

Please submit any bug reports or feature requests to the
ndn-cxx issue tracker.

Contributing

Contributions to ndn-cxx are greatly appreciated and can be made through our
Gerrit code review site.
If you are new to the NDN software community, please read our
Contributor's Guide
and README-dev.md to get started.

License

ndn-cxx is free software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.
See COPYING.md and COPYING.lesser for details.

ndn-cxx contains third-party software, licensed under the following licenses:

• scope-lite by Martin Moene is licensed under the
  Boost Software License 1.0
• span-lite by Martin Moene is licensed under the
  Boost Software License 1.0
• The waf build system is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license