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 .