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<p>CodeIgniter is licensed under an Apache/BSD-style open source license so you can use it however you please.
For more information please read the <a href="../license.html">license agreement</a>.</p>
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-<h2>CodeIgniter Runs on PHP 4</h2>
-<p>CodeIgniter is written to be compatible with PHP 4. Although we would have loved to take advantage of the better object handling
-in PHP 5 since it would have simplified some things we had to find creative solutions for (looking your way, multiple inheritance),
-at the time of this writing PHP 5 is not in widespread use, which means we would be alienating most of our
-potential audience. Major OS vendors like RedHat are moving slowly to support PHP 5, and they are unlikely to do so in the short term, so
-we felt that it did not serve the best interests of the PHP community to write CodeIgniter in PHP 5.</p>
-
-<p>Note: CodeIgniter will run on PHP 5. It simply does not take advantage of any native features that are only available in that version.</p>
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<h2>CodeIgniter is Light Weight</h2>
<p>Truly light weight. The core system requires only a few very small libraries. This is in stark contrast to many frameworks that require significantly more resources.
Additional libraries are loaded dynamically upon request, based on your needs for a given process, so the base system