* Consolidate README to eliminate some duplicate information

* Editing README.rst to make it more friendly as our github home page
* Move third party license info to copyright file

Signed-off-by: Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com>
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README
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@ -7,22 +7,22 @@ A set of PHP-scripts to manage MySQL over the web.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Summary
-------
phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web.
For a summary of features, list of requirements, and installation instructions,
please see the documentation in the ./doc/ folder or at http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/
Copyright
---------
Copyright (C) 1998-2000
Tobias Ratschiller <tobias_at_ratschiller.com>
Copyright © 1998 onwards -- the phpMyAdmin team
Copyright (C) 2001-2014
Marc Delisle <marc_at_infomarc.info>
Olivier Müller <om_at_omnis.ch>
Robin Johnson <robbat2_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Alexander M. Turek <me_at_derrabus.de>
Michal Čihař <michal_at_cihar.com>
Garvin Hicking <me_at_supergarv.de>
Michael Keck <mkkeck_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm_at_users.sourceforge.net>
[check documentation for more details]
Certain libraries are copyrighted by their respective authors;
see the full copyright list for details.
For full copyright information, please see ./doc/copyright.rst
License
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@ -46,66 +46,7 @@ Beginning on 2013-12-01, new contributions to this codebase are all licensed
under terms compatible with GPLv2-or-later. phpMyAdmin is currently
transitioning older code to GPLv2-or-later, but work is not yet complete.
Third party licenses
--------------------
phpMyAdmin includes several third party libraries which come under their
respective licenses.
jQuery's license, which is where we got the files under js/jquery/ is
(MIT|GPL), a copy of each license is available in this repository (GPL
is available as LICENSE, MIT as js/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt).
TCPDF which is located under libraries/tcpdf is released under GPL
version 3 and the license is available as libraries/tcpdf/LICENSE.TXT.
DejaVu fonts which are located under libraries/tcpdf/fonts/ and their
license is documented in
libraries/tcpdf/fonts/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33/LICENSE.
PHP-gettext which is located under libraries/php-gettext/ is released
under GPL version 2 license which is available in the LICENSE file.
Requirements
------------
* PHP 5.3 or later
* MySQL 5.0 or later
* a web-browser (doh!)
Summary
-------
phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web.
For a summary of features, please see the documentation in the doc folder.
Download
--------
You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/.
More Information
----------------
Please see the documentation in the doc folder.
Support
-------
See reference about support forums under http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
Enjoy!
------
The phpMyAdmin Devel team
PS:
Please, don't send us emails with question like "How do I compile PHP with
MySQL-support". We just don't have the time to be your free help desk.
Please send your questions to the appropriate mailing lists / forums. Before
contacting us, please read the documentation (especially the FAQ part).
The phpMyAdmin team

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Download
--------
You can get the newest version at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/.
You can get the newest release at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/.
If you prefer to follow the git repository, the following branch and tag names may be of interest:
* ``STABLE`` is the current stable release.
* ``master`` is the development branch.
* Releases are tagged, for example version 4.0.1 was tagged as ``RELEASE_4_0_1``.
More Information
----------------
Please see the documentation in the doc folder or at http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/.
Support
-------
For support or to learn how to contribute code or by translating to your language,
visit http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
See reference about support forums under http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

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@ -28,3 +28,23 @@ General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see `http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>`_.
Third party licenses
++++++++++++++++++++
phpMyAdmin includes several third party libraries which come under their
respective licenses.
jQuery's license, which is where we got the files under js/jquery/ is
(MIT|GPL), a copy of each license is available in this repository (GPL
is available as LICENSE, MIT as js/jquery/MIT-LICENSE.txt).
TCPDF which is located under libraries/tcpdf is released under GPL
version 3 and the license is available as libraries/tcpdf/LICENSE.TXT.
DejaVu fonts which are located under libraries/tcpdf/fonts/ and their
license is documented in
libraries/tcpdf/fonts/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33/LICENSE.
PHP-gettext which is located under libraries/php-gettext/ is released
under GPL version 2 license which is available in the LICENSE file.