X-Git-Url: http://git.code-monkey.de/?p=pulseview.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8608b3bf7314024ff15b5c0f0e13eca510bde5b9;hp=01cb87433562f163878d8e4514876004643ba909;hb=f4ab4b5c657e5613caba82feaa81a8a400e4f331;hpb=dd3b0532a3ab3f6712a00b2dfd1697c1437fa077

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@@ -6,27 +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.
 
-Mailing lists
--------------
+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).
 
-There are two mailing lists for sigrok/PulseView:
+Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
+
+
+Copyright notices
+-----------------
+
+A copyright notice indicating a range of years, must be interpreted as having
+had copyrightable material added in each of those years.
+
+Example:
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Contributor Name
+
+is to be interpreted as
+
+ Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2012,2013 Contributor Name
+
+
+Resource authors and licenses
+-----------------------------
+
+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
+
+QDarkStyleSheet: Colin Duquesnoy
+  https://github.com/ColinDuquesnoy/QDarkStyleSheet
+  License:
+    CC-BY 4.0
+    https://github.com/ColinDuquesnoy/QDarkStyleSheet/blob/master/LICENSE.md
+
+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 list
+------------
 
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
- https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
 
 
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