X-Git-Url: https://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=pulseview.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8608b3bf7314024ff15b5c0f0e13eca510bde5b9;hp=6788213d5f624fc06ec84cffb99e685750064e20;hb=323715c41a09a1aba08f4b716e9d93da58f0f3a8;hpb=202cf44dcecb79c030228c2a3c2e7c88509b9e51

diff --git a/README b/README
index 6788213d..8608b3bf 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -6,75 +6,70 @@ The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
 Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
 device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).
 
-PulseView is a Qt-based GUI for sigrok.
+PulseView is a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok.
 
 
 Status
 ------
 
-PulseView is currently work in progress. Some basic functionality
-is there, but it should still be considered alpha/beta stage software.
+PulseView is in a usable state and has had official tarball releases.
 
-There have been no official tarball releases, yet.
 
-Distro packagers should NOT package this, yet.
+Copyright and license
+---------------------
 
+PulseView is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+(GPL), version 3 or later.
 
-Requirements
-------------
+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).
+
+Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
 
- - 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
 
+Copyright notices
+-----------------
 
-Building and installing
------------------------
+A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having
+had copyrightable material added in each of those years.
 
-In order to get the PulseView source code and build it, run:
+Example:
 
- $ git clone git://sigrok.org/pulseview
- $ cd pulseview
- $ cmake .
- $ make
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name
 
-For installing PulseView:
+is to be interpreted as
 
- $ make install
+ Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name
 
-Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
 
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
+Resource authors and licenses
+-----------------------------
 
-Creating a source distribution package
---------------------------------------
+icons/information.svg: Bobarino
+  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Information.svg
+  License:
+    GFDL 1.2 or later / CC-BY-SA 3.0
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Information.svg#Licensing
 
-In order to build a source package begin with an unconfigured source tree.
+QDarkStyleSheet: Colin Duquesnoy
+  https://github.com/ColinDuquesnoy/QDarkStyleSheet
+  License:
+    CC-BY 4.0
+    https://github.com/ColinDuquesnoy/QDarkStyleSheet/blob/master/LICENSE.md
 
- $ mkdir dist/
- $ cmake ../
- $ make package_sources
+DarkStyle: Juergen Skrotzky
+  https://github.com/Jorgen-VikingGod/Qt-Frameless-Window-DarkStyle
+  License:
+    MIT license
+    https://github.com/Jorgen-VikingGod/Qt-Frameless-Window-DarkStyle#licence
 
-Mailing lists
--------------
 
-There are two mailing lists for sigrok/PulseView:
+Mailing list
+------------
 
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
- https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
 
 
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