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-bitmask-dev
+Bitmask
 ===========
-**Your internet encryption toolkit**
 
-Develop
--------
+*Your internet encryption toolkit*
 
-If you want to develop for the encrypted mail service, execute inside your virtualenv::
+.. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/leap.bitmask.svg
+    :target: http://badge.fury.io/py/leap.bitmask
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/IRC-leap-blue.svg
+   :target: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23leap&uio=d4
+   :alt: IRC
+.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/IRC-bitmask_(es)-blue.svg
+   :target: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23bitmask-es&uio=d4
+   :alt: IRC-es
 
-  make dev-mail
 
-If you want to develop for the gui client too, you have to have installed the
-python2 bindings for Qt5 in your system (in debian this is python-pyqt5,
-python-pyqt5.qtwebkit). After ensuring this, you can do::
+**Bitmask** is the client for the services offered by `the LEAP Platform`_. It
+contains a command-line interface and a multiplatform desktop client. It can be
+also used as a set of libraries to communicate with the different services from
+third party applications.
 
-  make dev-all
+It is written in python using `Twisted`_  and licensed under the `GPL3`_. The
+Graphical User Interface is written in html+js and uses `PyQt5`_ for serving the
+application.
+
+.. _`the LEAP Platform`: https://github.com/leapcode/leap_platform
+.. _`Twisted`: https://twistedmatrix.com
+.. _`PyQt5`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt5
+.. _`GPL3`: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
+
+Read the Docs!
+------------------
+
+The latest documentation is available at `LEAP`_.
+
+.. _`LEAP`: https://leap.se/en/docs/client
+
+Bugs
+====
+
+Please report any bugs `in our bug tracker`_.
+
+.. _`in our bug tracker`: https://leap.se/code/projects/report-issues 
+
+
+Development
+==============
 
 Tests
 -----
 
-Tests need tox::
+You need tox to run the tests. If you don't have it in your system yet::
 
   pip install tox
+
+And then run all the tests::
+
   tox
 
-If you are developing against a non-published branch of leap.common or
-leap.soledad, run instead::
+If you are developing against a non-published branch of ``leap.common`` or
+``leap.soledad``, run instead::
 
   tox -e py27-dev
+
+This expects ``leap_common`` and ``soledad`` repos to be checked out in the
+parent folder.
+
+Hacking
+-------
+
+If you want to develop for the encrypted mail service, execute inside your virtualenv::
+
+  make dev-mail
+
+If you want to develop for the gui client too, you have to have installed the
+python2 bindings for Qt5 in your system (in debian: ``apt install python-pyqt5 
+python-pyqt5.qtwebkit``). After ensuring this, you can do::
+
+  make dev-all
+
+
+License
+=======
+
+.. image:: https://raw.github.com/leapcode/bitmask_client/develop/docs/user/gpl.png
+
+Bitmask is released under the terms of the `GNU GPL version 3`_ or later.
+
+.. _`GNU GPL version 3`: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt