Added README and renamed COPYING to LICENSE to be more GitHub-friendly.

BenLangmead · Dec 21, 2012 · 192e4f0 · 192e4f0
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diff --git a/COPYING → LICENSE b/COPYING → LICENSE
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ GENERAL_LIST = $(wildcard scripts/*.sh) \
                reads/e_coli_10000snp.fq \
                $(PTHREAD_PKG) \
                AUTHORS \
-               COPYING \
+               LICENSE \
                NEWS \
                MANUAL \
                MANUAL.markdown \

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Bowtie NEWS
 ===========
 
    Bowtie is now available for download.  0.9.0 is the first version to
-be released under the OSI Artistic License (see `COPYING') and freely
+be released under the OSI Artistic License (see `LICENSE') and freely
 available to the public for download.  The current version is 0.12.10.
 
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@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Version Release History
 =======================
 
 Version 0.12.10 - Coming soon
+   * Renamed COPYING to LICENSE to be more GitHub-friendly.
    * Tokenizer no longer has limit of 10,000 tokens, which was a
      problem for users trying to index a very large number of FASTA
      files.

diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Bowtie: http://bowtie-bio.sf.net
+
+ - See AUTHORS for information about who wrote Bowtie and its various
+   components.
+ - See LICENSE for license information.
+ - See MANUAL for detailed information on how to use Bowtie.
+ - See NEWS for information about changes in this and previous versions
+   of Bowtie.
+ - See TUTORIAL for a quick example to get you started with Bowtie.