diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (C) 2011 by Marcel C. Morgan
+
+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 without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 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 THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY 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.
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 = Retort
 
-rtorrent xmlrpc wrapper written in ruby (1.9). Designed to decouple the 
+rtorrent xmlrpc wrapper written in ruby (1.9). Designed to decouple the
 xmlrpc interface from the underlying ruby objects.
 
+== Basic usage
+
+Update your Gemfile with this and do a bundle install:
+
+  gem 'retort'
+
+To get a list of all torrents:
+
+  require 'retort'
+  Retort::Torrent.all
+
+== Contributions
+
+To fetch & test the library for development, do:
+
+  $ git clone https://github.com/mcmorgan/retort
+  $ cd retort
+  $ bundle
+  $ bundle exec rspec spec
+
+If you want to contribute, please:
+
+  * Fork the project.
+  * Make your feature addition or bug fix.
+  * Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
+  * Send me a pull request on Github.
+
+== Copyright
+
+Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Marcel Morgan. See LICENSE for details.