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+# WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
+
+**Author:** Oliver Schneider
+
+## Copyright and licenses
+
+* Copyright © 2003-2005 Bernhard Seifert (bseifert@users.sourceforge.net)
+* Copyright © 2004-2014 WinDirStat team (windirstat.info)
+
+The application itself is distributed under the terms of the [GPL v2](https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/raw/tip/windirstat/res/license.txt),
+but parts of the source code are also available under more lenient license terms.
+
+The documentation/help is distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
+
+*Note:* you are not at liberty to upgrade the GPL version to anything later
+than v2 at this moment.
+
+The logo and all derivatives are available under the terms of the Creative
+Commons license [CC BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
+
+## Description
+
+WinDirStat is a program that allows you to find disk space hogs at a glance.
+It achieves that by displaying a drive, drives or directories in a [treemap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemap)
+that assigns bigger areas to bigger files and directories. Making those areas
+visually separate by coloring and other means allows you to see literally at
+a glance what the space hogs are and where to dig deeper.
+
+The directory tree is simultanously shown as a treelist and as a treemap.
+One can effortlessly gain an impression of the proportions on the hard disk(s).
+
+### Major features
+
+* 3 views, Directory tree, Treemap and Extension list, coupled with each other,
+* Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Delete, Show Properties,
+* User defined cleanup actions (command line based),
+* Language is English by default; further translations can be added as
+  resource DLLs,
+* Online-Help,
+* A little setup.exe which installs the files and shortcuts.
+
+### Background
+
+The original author of WinDirStat was Bernhard Seifert and it was inspired by
+[KDirStat](http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/) and [SequoiaView](http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/).\
+Design and many details are based on KDirStat, so WinDirStat is "a KDirStat re-programmed for MS Windows".
+
+### WinDirStat Alternatives on other operating systems
+
+Meanwhile alternatives also exist for OS X and many programs make use of
+treemaps for a variety of visualization needs.
+
+The [FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software) alternatives for other operating systems are thus:
+
+* [KDirStat](http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/) (Linux and virtually any \*nix that runs KDE/X11)
+* [Disk Inventory X](http://www.derlien.com/) (OS X)
+* [GrandPerspective](http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/) (OS X)
+
+We're not aware of an alternative for Windows at this moment, but
+
+## Building from source
+
+Please refer to the project Wiki page [Building](https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/wiki/Building).
+
+## Contributing
+
+The project [Wiki](https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/wiki/Home) on
+Bitbucket features a whole section on the topic of contributing. If you don't
+agree on the requirements, feel free to contact a project member regardless
+before you put any substantial effort into your potential contribution.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+WinDirStat currently runs on all flavors of Windows, but does have some
+problems on more recent versions of Windows (8 and later) that will be
+addresses by a future release.
+
+## Logo
+
+![WinDirStat logo](https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/raw/tip/common/logo_256px.png)
+
+The [logo](https://windirstat.info/logo.html) was generously designed and contributed to the project by Robin
+"tuqueque" Marín. Follow him on Twitter [@tuquequeorg](https://twitter.com/tuquequeorg).
+
+## Links
+
+We currently have:
+
+* a [website](https://windirstat.info/)
+* a [blog](http://blog.windirstat.info/)
+* are on Twitter as [@windirstat](https://twitter.com/windirstat)
+* have a SubReddit [r/WinDirStat](http://www.reddit.com/r/WinDirStat/)
+
+Find a more up-to-date list of links on the website and the blog at any point
+in time.
+
+### Contact - Kontakt - Контакт
+
+* You may write us on the following page in either English, German or Russian: [contact](https://windirstat.info/contact.html)
+* Ihr könnt uns auf der folgenden Webseite entweder auf Deutsch, Englisch oder Russisch schreiben: [Kontakt](https://windirstat.info/contact.html)
+* Пишите нам на этом вебсайте на русском, на англиском или на немецком: [контакт](https://windirstat.info/contact.html) - **Указание:** давно в школе я учился русский язык. Но как писал это уже давно, поэтому может быть чтобы не все понимаю и наверно тоже не пишу бес ошыбок. Посмотрим.