X-Git-Url: https://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=libsigrokdecode.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7d11ae55f17296cfccdd590d57312258e9cf8f68;hp=0a9493398feb6ad90be3613ac883836fc3bb29c5;hb=f8c88ebc5b33052de0b88690577af4611aa3709a;hpb=7560e16c17b9616e2ab6ae39a65c550b061889fd

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0a94933..7d11ae5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Requirements
  - pkg-config >= 0.22
  - libglib >= 2.24.0
  - Python >= 3.0
+ - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
 
 
 Building and installing
@@ -53,12 +54,30 @@ For installing libsigrokdecode:
 
  $ make install
 
-Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
+See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
 
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
+ http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
+
+
+Copyright and license
+---------------------
+
+libsigrokdecode is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+(GPL), version 3 or later.
+
+The protocol decoders (PDs) included in libsigrokdecode are an integral part
+of the shared library (they are not merely external "plugins", they are not
+external programs that libsigrokdecode calls via fork/exec, they cannot
+function standalone without libsigrokdecode at all, the PDs and the rest of
+the libsigrokdecode codebase share data structures and make function calls
+to each other). Thus, since the PDs are part of the library, they are also
+licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
+
+While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
+some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
+the library as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
+
+Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
 
 
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