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+Welcome to the Kyua project!
+============================
+
+Kyua is a **testing framework** for infrastructure software, originally
+designed to equip BSD-based operating systems with a test suite.  This
+means that Kyua is lightweight and simple, and that Kyua integrates well
+with various build systems and continuous integration frameworks.
+
+Kyua features an **expressive test suite definition language**, a **safe
+runtime engine** for test suites and a **powerful report generation
+engine**.
+
+Kyua is for **both developers *and* users**, from the developer applying a
+simple fix to a library to the system administrator deploying a new release
+on a production machine.
+
+Kyua is **able to execute test programs written with a plethora of testing
+libraries and languages**.  The library of choice is
+[ATF](https://github.com/jmmv/atf/), for which Kyua was originally
+designed, but simple, framework-less test programs and TAP-compliant test
+programs can also be executed through Kyua.
+
+Kyua is licensed under a **[liberal BSD 3-clause license](LICENSE)**.
+This is not an official Google product.
+
+[Read more about Kyua in the About wiki page.](../../wiki/About)
+
+
+Download
+--------
+
+The latest version of Kyua is 0.13 and was released on August 26th, 2016.
+
+Download: [kyua-0.13](../../releases/tag/kyua-0.13).
+
+See the [release notes](NEWS.md) for information about the changes in this
+and all previous releases.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+You are encouraged to install binary packages for your operating system
+wherever available:
+
+* Fedora 20 and above: install the `kyua-cli` package with `yum install
+  kyua-cli`.
+
+* FreeBSD 10.0 and above: install the `kyua` package with `pkg install kyua`.
+
+* NetBSD with pkgsrc: install the `pkgsrc/devel/kyua` package.
+
+* OpenBSD with packages: install the `kyua` package with `pkg_add kyua`.
+
+* OS X (with Homebrew): install the `kyua` package with `brew install kyua`.
+
+Should you want to build and install Kyua from the source tree provided
+here, follow the instructions in the
+[INSTALL.md file](INSTALL.md).
+
+You should also install the ATF libraries to assist in the development of
+test programs.  To that end, see the
+[ATF project page](https://github.com/jmmv/atf/).
+
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+Want to contribute?  Great!  But please first read the guidelines provided
+in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+If you are curious about who made this project possible, you can check out
+the [list of copyright holders](AUTHORS) and the [list of
+individuals](CONTRIBUTORS).
+
+
+Support
+-------
+
+Please use the [kyua-discuss mailing
+list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kyua-discuss) for any support
+inquiries.
+
+*Homepage:* https://github.com/jmmv/kyua/