Java Marine API readme Version 0.1 (pre-alpha) Copyright (C) 2010 Kimmo Tuukkanen 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * Java JRE/JDK 1.5 or later 2. LICENSING Java Marine API is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Java Marine API is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with Java Marine API. If not, see . 3. SOURCE CODE The source code for Java Marine API is freely available in project's SVN repository. See project page at SourceForge.net to obtain a working copy and more instructions. 3. NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Java Marine API is not official NMEA software or related to National Marine Electronics Association. The interpretation of NMEA sentences for this library is based entirely on freely available resources in the internet. Thus, it is NOT guaranteed that the library would conform and follow the standard accurately. The NMEA information for Java Marine API has been collected mainly from the following resources (in random order, last checked on 2010-03-06): * Wikipedia's NMEA article * NMEA Sentence Information by Glenn Baddeley * NMEA Data by Dale DePriest * The NMEA FAQ by Peter Bennett * NMEA Revealed by Eric S. Raymond Thanks to all authors for collecting the information. All disclaimers and warnings concerning the accuracy of information in the above documents apply equally to Java Marine API. Upon noticing or suspecting any errors, please contact the project author .