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+ScrollingJQuery gallery
+
+© 2007, 2008, 2009 Jan Dittberner <jan@dittberner.info>
+© 2008 Jeremias Arnstadt <douth024@googlemail.com>
+
+ScrollingJQuery gallery is a image gallery system based on the jQuery
+JavaScript library.
+
+License
+-------
+
+ScrollingJQueryGallery 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 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ScrollingJQueryGallery is distributed in the hope that it will be
+useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with ScrollingJQueryGallery.  If not, see
+<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+For installation and configuration instructions see INSTALL.
+
+Changes
+-------
+
+For latest changes see the ChangeLog file.