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+About
+-----
+
+wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework
+for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
+
+![wxWidgets Logo](http://www.wxwidgets.org/assets/img/header-logo.png)
+
+
+wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for
+all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting
+the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free
+for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes
+with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive
+documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples.
+You can learn more about wxWidgets at http://www.wxwidgets.org/
+and read its documentation online at http://docs.wxwidgets.org/
+
+
+Platforms
+---------
+
+wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
+
+- Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (32/64 bits).
+- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x).
+- Mac OS X (10.6 or newer) using Cocoa (32/64 bits) or Carbon (32 only).
+
+Most popular C++ compilers are supported including but not limited to:
+
+- Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 or later (up to 2013).
+- g++ 3.4 or later, including MinGW/MinGW-64/TDM under Windows.
+- Clang under OS X and Linux.
+- Intel icc compiler.
+- Oracle (ex-Sun) aCC.
+
+
+Licence
+-------
+
+[wxWidgets licence](https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/docs/licence.txt)
+is a modified version of LGPL explicitly allowing not distributing the sources
+of an application using the library even in the case of static linking.
+
+
+Further information
+-------------------
+
+If you are looking for support, you can get it from
+
+- wx-users [mailing list](http://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/)
+- wxForum at http://forums.wxwidgets.org/
+- #wxwidgets IRC channel
+- http://stackoverflow.com/ if you tag your question with "wxwidgets"
+- Please report bugs at http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket
+
+We would also gladly welcome [your contributions](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+
+Have fun!
+
+The wxWidgets Team.