X-Git-Url: https://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=pulseview.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=658af7742e9eb68db2e197c96773cd7718c1bf16;hp=210b8c360b33a523f26557342673faab1b01db19;hb=dd63af740355865cc0659dfba74ecf4445414bc8;hpb=06993d0c95ae80f47dbbc75ed18a983f4a387f04

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+++ b/README
@@ -20,44 +20,33 @@ There have been no official tarball releases, yet.
 Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet.
 
 
-Requirements
-------------
+Copyright and license
+---------------------
 
- - git
- - g++
- - make
- - libtool
- - pkg-config >= 0.22
- - cmake >= 2.6
- - libglib >= 2.28.0
- - Qt >= 4.5
- - libboost >= 1.45 (including the following libs):
-    - libboost-system
-    - libboost-thread
- - libsigrok >= 0.2.0
- - libsigrokdecode >= 0.1.0
+PulseView is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+(GPL), version 3 or later.
 
+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 program as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+ (e.g. also
+due to the fact that it links against GPLv3+ libraries).
 
-Building and installing
------------------------
+Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
 
-In order to get the PulseView source code and build it, run:
 
- $ git clone git://sigrok.org/pulseview
- $ cd pulseview
- $ cmake .
- $ make
+Copyright notices
+-----------------
 
-For installing PulseView:
+A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having
+had copyrightable material added in each of those years.
 
- $ make install
+Example:
 
-Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name
 
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
+is to be interpreted as
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name
 
 
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