X-Git-Url: https://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=libsigrokdecode.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=f50daf77a50d5082d8b52cfbfc696de7543677a7;hp=ee34529094842e52b3399903393ef007d7214ab5;hb=04ff49263b0a462250d2301e6d4d17db5904a8d3;hpb=e0af499b4f5840190807636e536e1fb4956f71a9

diff --git a/README b/README
index ee34529..f50daf7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ Requirements
  - automake >= 1.11
  - libtool
  - pkg-config >= 0.22
- - libglib >= 2.28.0
- - Python >= 3.0
+ - libglib >= 2.24.0
+ - Python >= 3.2
+ - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
 
 
 Building and installing
@@ -53,21 +54,36 @@ 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
 
 
-Mailing lists
--------------
+Copyright and license
+---------------------
 
-There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrokdecode:
+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.
+
+
+Mailing list
+------------
 
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
- https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
 
 
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