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 @-~ Copyright and Licensing ~-@
 
-Architektonas: Free Cross Platform CAD software
-Copyright (C) 2010 Underground Software.
-Portions copyright (C) 2001-2003 RibbonSoft.
+Architektonas: Free Cross Platform 2D CAD software
+Copyright (C) 2011 Underground Software.
 Trademarks used are the property of their respective owners.
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
 version.
 
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
@@ -35,26 +34,44 @@ it would work, and if it was worth doing. Positive results were obtained in
 both respects, so work started in earnest in doing a complete port to Qt 4
 without any reliance whatsoever on the Qt3Support module.
 
-Eventually, after much hard work and cursing, success was won and the author
-ended up with a codebase that was quite a bit different from that which he
-started with. And since the end goal was not just feature parity with QCad CE
-but to surpass it, a new name was needed to prevent confusion with RibbonSoft's
-product.
+Eventually, after much hard work, cursing, and gnashing of teeth, success was
+won and the author ended up with a codebase that was quite a bit different from
+that which he started with. And since the end goal was not just feature parity
+with QCad CE but to surpass it, a new name was needed to prevent confusion with
+RibbonSoft's product.
 
 Initial thoughts on naming centered around FooCAD or CADFoo (with Foo being
 whatever), but a long search on the internet brought forth the conclusion that
 such paths have been well trodden by just about anyone who has even given a
-thought towards creating computer aided design software. And so it was
-manifestly clear that a different naming scheme would be required. After
-several false starts, the name Architektonas was chosen as a rough English
-transliteration of the Greek word for architect. We like it; we hope you do
-too!
+passing thought towards creating computer aided design software. And so it was
+manifestly clear that a different naming scheme would be required. After much
+reflection and several false starts, the name Architektonas was chosen as a
+rough English transliteration of the Greek word for architect. We feel it's a
+good name and hope to live up to the expectations that such a name gives!
+
+An interesting postscript to this story arose with a certain Mr. Ries van Twisk,
+who is the author of another QCad fork called LibreCAD, arrived on the scene.
+For some time Mr. van Twisk had access to the author's private repository and
+rather than work with the author, he decided to create his own fork "from
+scratch". Of course this was burdened with all of the problems that surrounded
+the original QCad CE source done with Qt3 and the porting to Qt4 and the
+Qt3Support module. And so, stagnation reared its ugly head once more. Sad, but
+true.
+
+And so, in light of this prospect, and after the author of Architektonas having
+beat his head against the illogical class structure and general brain-deadness
+of the code, he decided it would be for the best to divorce himself from the
+QCad codebase he so painstakingly ported to Qt4 and start from scratch. The
+result, in our opinion, was worth the effort--and even the porting effort of
+QCad CE was not in vain as it helped the author to clarify that vision and
+arrive at something *much* better. We think you'll agree! And if you don't, we'd
+love to hear from you so that we can improve!
 
 
 @-~ Installation ~-@
 
-Architektonas is built on the Qt 4 framework; it requires version 4.6.3 or
-later. We build it using gcc v4.4.3; we can't guarantee that it will compile on
+Architektonas is built on the Qt 5 framework; it requires version 5.3.2 or
+later. We build it using gcc v4.8.4; we can't guarantee that it will compile on
 lesser versions but you never know. Building Architektonas should be as easy as
 typing: