From 787c80c1fe63375a00f67a8106439f4308fa367d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baldur Karlsson <baldur@crytek.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:02:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] initial commit - README and LICENSE files

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+# RenderDoc License
+
+RenderDoc is licensed under the MIT License:
+
+> The MIT License (MIT)
+> 
+> Copyright (c) 2014 Crytek
+> 
+> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+> of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+> in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+> to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+> copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+> 
+> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+> all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+> 
+> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+> OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+> THE SOFTWARE.
+
+---
+
+RenderDoc also uses several external libraries and components which include their own licenses, linked below:
+
+- [mhook](http://codefromthe70s.org/mhook23.aspx)
+  distributed under the MIT license.
+  Copyright Marton Anka 2007-2012, portions Copyright 2007 Matt Conover.
+
+- [TreeView with Columns](http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/23746/TreeView-with-Columns)
+  distributed under the [CPOL](http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx) license.
+
+- [Dock Panel Suite](http://dockpanelsuite.com/)
+  distributed under the MIT license.
+  Copyright 2007 Weifen Luo.
+
+- [famfamfam silk icons](http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/)
+  distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5.
+  Authored by Mark James.
+
+- [ScintillaNET (and Scintilla)](http://scintillanet.codeplex.com/)
+  distributed under the MIT license.
+  ScintillaNET Copyright 2002-2006 Garrett Serack,
+  Scintilla Copyright 1998-2006 Neil Hodgson.
+
+- [Google Breakpad](https://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/)
+  distributed under the New BSD License (3 Clause).
+  Copyright 2006 Google Inc.
+
+- [miniz](https://code.google.com/p/miniz/)
+  released to the Public Domain by Rich Geldreich.
+
+- [ILM's half implementation](https://github.com/openexr/openexr/tree/master/IlmBase/Half)
+  distributed under BSD license.
+  Copyright 2002 Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucas Digital Ltd. LLC
+
+- [jpeg-compressor](https://code.google.com/p/jpeg-compressor/)
+  released to the Public Domain by Rich Geldreich.
+
+- [lz4](https://code.google.com/p/lz4/)
+  distributed under the New BSD License (3 Clause).
+  Copyright 2013 Yann Collet.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+RenderDoc
+==============
+
+Welcome to RenderDoc - a graphics debugger, currently available for D3D11 development on windows. 
+
+This repository is here to keep track of bugs and discussion, as well as to (eventually) house the source code to the application, when it's released.
+
+More information can be found at http://www.crydev.net/renderdoc
+
+License
+--------------
+
+RenderDoc is released under the MIT license, so there are no restrictions on your use of it either commercial or non-commercial.  This license will also not change when the source is released, so any source modifications will be equally unrestricted. 
+