Update documentation

Add a basic README
Update COPYING to contain the MIT license in generic form
Remove obsolete ChangeLog
Remove empty NEWS file

4 files changed, 16 insertions, 106 deletions

diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 58c120e..6068366 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Harold L Hunt II. All Rights Reserved.
-
 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
@@ -14,7 +12,7 @@ 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 HAROLD L HUNT II BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
 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.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
deleted file mode 100644
index 86cd0c5..0000000
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-2003-10-29	Kensuke Matsuzaki <zakki@peppermint.jp>
-	* xevents.c, xwinclip.c Backport of the patch that fixes the crash
-	with large text, enables non-ascii copy and paste, and adds
-	-nounicodeclipboard command-line parameter.
-
-2003-10-29	Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
-	* general Fix compilation warnings for printf () calls.
-	* Imakefile Enable builds outside the xc/programs try (use xmkmf).
-	* configure.ac, Makefile.am, AUTHORS, ChangeLog, COPYING, INSTALL,
-	NEWS, README, VERSION
-	New automake/autoconf build system.
-
-2003-01-12	Jeremy Wilkins <jeb@jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk>
-	* general Add support for -display and --display command-line
-	parameters.
-
-2003-12-29	Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
-	* wndproc.c Pass NULL to PeekMessage instead of the hwnd for our
-	messaging window, since this was causing some vital messages to be
-	filtered out.
-
-2003-12-29	Chris Twiner <>
-	* xwinclip.c Use setjmp and longjmp to gracefully catch IO Errors
-	and restart the process from the entry point. This should allow
-	xwinclip to continue running when the X Server resets.
-
-2002-06-22	Kensuke Matsuzaki <zakki@peppermint.jp>
-	* xevents.c, xevents.h, xwinclip.c Add real support for
-	COMPOUND_TEXT, TARGETS, and UTF8_STRING selection types. Grab
-	clipboard contents in Unicode, if supported, convert to multi-byte
-	character set, then stick the result into the appropriate
-	target. This allows Japanese text to be transferred via
-	xwinclip. Other eastern languages (Korean, Chinese, etc.) may also
-	work.
-
-2002-06-22	Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
-	* xwinclip.c Add a UnicodeSupport function to check if we have
-	Unicode support or not. Currently this is done by just checking if
-	we are on an NT-based platform or not.
-
-2002-06-12	Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
-	* xwinclip.c Break this single source file into xwinclip.c,
-	textconv.c, textconv.h, wndproc.c, wndproc.h, xevents.c, and
-	xevents.h.
-	* xwinclip.c Pause and loop to retry, after a delay, if we fail
-	while opening the display.
-	* xwinclip.c Remove a call to XSelectInput that was operating on
-	our own window and always returning BadWindow. Apparently the
-	event mask for our own window has to be changed with
-	XChangeWindowAttributes. I've put a #if0'd example of using
-	XChangeWindowAttributes into the file.
-	* xwinclip.c Remove a call to XFlush. It doesn't seem necessary
-	to flush any events in our queue before we start processing
-	events. However, I may have read somewhere that we have to do
-	this, so I may have to re-add this call to XFlush later.
-	* xwinclip.c Create an atom for WM_DELETE_WINDOW. This will get is
-	an X event when a window manager is about to kill us. However, it
-	does nothing for the case where the server is told to GiveUp ().
-	* xwinclip.c In CreateMessagingWindow, add a call to ShowWindow
-	passing SW_HIDE and add a call to UpdateWindow. I'm not sure, but
-	these may be necessary to kick off Windows event processing. On a
-	strange note - the current xwinclip doesn't process any Windows
-	messages.
-	* xevents.c Add handling for WM_DELETE_WINDOW.
-
-2002-06-10	Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
-	* xwinclip.c Use select () in ConnectionNumber(pDisplay) and
-	/dev/windows instead of calling XNextEvent, which blocks until the
-	next event. This has many benefits: Windows messages are now
-	processed almost immediately after they come in (the old approach
-	could take minutes), we can catch the X shutdown and restart
-	messages rather than having XNextEvent call exit () when it sees
-	that the connection has closed (we don't currently catch these
-	events), and the clipboard integration code can now be rewritten
-	with the assumption that we can and will see the Windows events
-	when they arrive without an X event immediately preceeding them
-	(which may allow us to stop stealing ownership of the X
-	selection).
-	* xwinclip.c Move the X event loop into new function
-	FlushXEventQueue.
-
-2001-10-23	Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
-	* xwinclip.c Add UNIXtoDOS () function to change \n to \r\n when
-	copying text from an X client to the Windows clipboard. Call the
-	function right before calling OpenClipboard ().
-
-2001-10-22	Brian Genisio <>
-	* xwinclip.c Line 327 - Pass strlen (pszGlobalData) instead of
-	strlen (pszGlobalData) + 1 to XChangeProperty (). This eliminates
-	the trailing ^@ when pasting to certain X applications, such as
-	Emacs.
-
-2001-10-22	Harold L Hunt II, Brian Genisio, Cygwin Project
-	* xwinclip.c Add DOStoUNIX () function to change \r\n to \n when
-	copying text from the Windows clipboard to an X client. Call the
-	function right before calling XChangeProperty ().
-
-2001-09-02	Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
-	* general Copy text selections from Windows into Cygwin/XFree86
-	when requested.
-	* general Copy text selections from Cygwin/XFree86 into Windows
-	when requested.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b13789..0000000
--- a/NEWS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/README b/README
index 8b13789..e9a38a2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
+xwinclip - X11 and Windows clipboard integration library and tool
 
+Building
+========
+
+xwinclip can be built using GNU autotools.
+From the top level directory, execute the commands:
+
+$ ./autogen.sh
+$ ./configure
+$ make
+$ make install
+
+libXfixes and libX11 are required.
+
+This produces xwinclip and libXWinclip.