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+SmsGateway
+==========
+
+SmsGateway is a JSON-RPC based SMS Gateway.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+* Sender interfaces
+ * Multiple SMS sending interfaces. Currently only Gnokii is supported, but
+with SenderInterface, anyone can write a new one.
+* Database backends