Merge pull request #422 from comradekingu/patch-4

Readme language rework - accepting and reviewing.
thank you.

README.rst

@@ -10,50 +10,50 @@ Ghini
 * **ghini-1.1** is testing - feedback is welcome;
 * **master** is unstable - do not open issues on this one; 
 
-what is Ghini (desktop)
+What is Ghini (desktop)
 ------------------------
 
 Ghini was born as Bauble at the Belize Botanic Gardens, At its heart it is a
-framework for creating database applications.  In its distributed form Ghini
+framework for creating database applications. In its distributed form Ghini
 is an application to manage plant records and specifically living
-collections.  Either as Ghini or Bauble, the software is used among others
-by Belize Botanic Gardens, the Jardín Botánico de Quito, the Mackay Regional
-Botanical Garden, to manage their live collections.  Included by default is
+collections. Either as Ghini or Bauble, the software is used among others
+by BBG, the Jardín Botánico de Quito and the Mackay Regional
+Botanical Garden to manage their live collections. Included by default is
 RBG Kew's Family and Genera list from Vascular Plant Families and Genera
 compiled by R. K. Brummitt and published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
 in 1992 used by permission from RBG Kew.
 
 All code contained as part of the Bauble package is licenced under
-the GNU GPLv2+.
+the GNU GPLv3+.
 
 Terms and Names
 ---------------
 
-When it was born, around 2004, Bauble was a desktop application, and the
-name Bauble used to indicate the software and the organization behind it.
+At the time of its inception around 2004, Bauble was a desktop application,
+namely indicating the software and the organization behind it.
 More recently the original author of Bauble is rewriting Bauble as a web
-application and with the possibility to install it as a desktop program.  In
-order to avoid confusion between the new ``bauble.web`` program, its
+application, with the possibility of installing it as a desktop program.
+In order to avoid confusion between the new ``bauble.web`` program, its
 perspective ``bauble.desktop`` desktop version, the stable and still current
-desktop application ``bauble.classic`` and its corresponding node.js web
-based prototype ``mfrasca/ghini``, we have split development in two separate
+desktop application ``bauble.classic`` along with corresponding Node.js web
+based prototype ``mfrasca/ghini``, development split into two separate
 organizations: Ghini and Bauble.
 
-please check the Bauble site for further details about it.
+The Bauble website describes this in further detail.
 
 Within the Ghini organization
 
 - ``ghini.desktop`` is the new name of the stable and well established
-  software previously distributed as ``bauble.classic``. ``ghini.desktop``
-  is Ghini's flagship, it is a GTK+ desktop application and it is described
+  software previously distributed as ``bauble.classic``. ``ghini.desktop``.
+  As Ghini's flagship, it is a GTK+ desktop application, described
   here.
-- ``ghini.web`` is the name for the geographic and web interface to a
+- ``ghini.web`` is the name of the geographic and web interface to a
   ``ghini.desktop`` PostgreSQL database.
-- ``ghini.github.io`` contains the sources for the ghini web site.
+- ``ghini.github.io`` contains the sources for the Ghini website.
 
-The name _Ghini_ is to honour Luca Ghini, the founder of the botanical
-garden of Pisa, and Pisa is the place where the current maintainer Mario
-Frasca has completed his studies in computer science.
+The name _Ghini_ honours Luca Ghini, the founder of the botanical
+garden of Pisa, the place where the current maintainer Mario
+Frasca completed his computer science studies.
 
 Requirements
 ------------
@@ -65,25 +65,25 @@ ghini.desktop requires the following packages to run.
 * PyGObject (>= 2.11.1, at least up to 2.28.6)
 * lxml (>= 2.0)
 
-each of the following database connectors is optional, but at least one is needed:
+One of the following database connectors is needed:
 
 * pysqlite >= 2.3.2
 * psycopg2 >= 2.0.5 
 * mysql-python >= 1.2.1 
 
-To use the formatter plugin you will also need to install an
-XSL->PDF renderer. For a free renderer check out Apache FOP
-(>=.92beta) at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
+To use the formatting plugin you will also need to install an
+XSL->PDF renderer. For a libre renderer, check out Apache FOP
+at https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
 
 Further info
 ------------
 
 The complete documentation for ghini.desktop is to be found at
 http://ghini.readthedocs.org. It includes detailed and up-to-date
 installation procedures for different platforms, troubleshooting,
-and a very thorough user manual.
+and a very thorough user-manual.
 
-For any kind of question, you can open an issue `here on github
+For any kind of question, you can open an issue `here on GitHub
 <https://github.com/Ghini/ghini.desktop/issues/new>`_, or if you feel more
-comfortable with it, you can start a thread on `our google group
+comfortable with it, start a thread on `our Google group
 <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bauble>`_.