first commit

Author: memento

COPYING

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Litecoin Developers
+
+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.

INSTALL

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Building Litecoin
+
+See doc/readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Litecoin-Qt,
+the intended-for-end-users, nice-graphical-interface, reference
+implementation of Litecoin.
+
+See doc/build-*.txt for instructions on building litecoind,
+the intended-for-services, no-graphical-interface, reference
+implementation of Litecoin.

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+Litecoin integration/staging tree
+================================
+
+http://www.litecoin.org
+
+Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2011-2014 Litecoin Developers
+
+What is Litecoin?
+----------------
+
+Litecoin is a lite version of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm.
+ - 2.5 minute block targets
+ - subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
+ - ~84 million total coins
+
+The rest is the same as Bitcoin.
+ - 50 coins per block
+ - 2016 blocks to retarget difficulty
+
+For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
+the Litecoin client sofware, see http://www.litecoin.org.
+
+License
+-------
+
+Litecoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
+information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+Development process
+-------------------
+
+Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think
+their feature or bug fix is ready.
+
+If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Litecoin
+development team members simply pulls it.
+
+If it is a *more complicated or potentially controversial* change, then the patch
+submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
+[mailing list](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development).
+
+The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
+Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
+match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.txt`) or are
+controversial.
+
+The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
+completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags) are created
+regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Litecoin.
+
+Testing
+-------
+
+Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull
+requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, and
+remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
+lots of money.
+
+### Automated Testing
+
+Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
+submit new unit tests for old code.
+
+Unit tests for the core code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:
+
+    cd src; make -f makefile.unix test
+
+Unit tests for the GUI code are in `src/qt/test/`. To compile and run them:
+
+    qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test bitcoin-qt.pro
+    make -f Makefile.test
+    ./litecoin-qt_test
+