From 192e4f0a3b2870a39357f261ffa501ce9505ac12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BenLangmead <ben.langmead@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:27:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added README and renamed COPYING to LICENSE to be more
 GitHub-friendly.

---
 COPYING => LICENSE | 0
 Makefile           | 2 +-
 NEWS               | 3 ++-
 README             | 9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 rename COPYING => LICENSE (100%)
 create mode 100644 README

diff --git a/COPYING b/LICENSE
similarity index 100%
rename from COPYING
rename to LICENSE
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9a8a701..98efc0a 100644
--- 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
index a367751..03dcee6 100644
--- 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.
 
 Reporting Issues
@@ -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
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..409ff83
--- /dev/null
+++ 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.