initial source import (v0.26) and packaging

README.md

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-scour
-=====
+# Scour
 
-Scour - an SVG scrubber
+Scour is a Python module that takes an input SVG and outputs a cleaner,
+more concise SVG file.  The goal is that authors will use this script after
+editing the file in a GUI editor such as Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.
+
+Scour was started as a vehicle for me to learn Python.  In addition, the goal
+is to reduce the amount of time I spend in cleaning up files I find on sites
+such as openclipart.org
+
+Ideas are pulled from three places:
+
+  * my head
+  * Sam Ruby's SVG Tidy script: http://intertwingly.net/code/svgtidy/svgtidy.rb
+  * Inkscape's proposal for a 'cleaned SVG': http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Save_Cleaned_SVG
+
+Regards,
+
+Jeff Schiller, 2009-04-06
+
+codedread@gmail.com
+
+http://blog.codedread.com/
+
+http://www.codedread.com/scour/
+
+## Notes
+
+Packaging from [sources](http://www.codedread.com/scour/) retrieved on 2013/20/22:
+
+  * done by Tavendo GmbH, Tobias Oberstein
+  * license same as upstream (Apache 2.0)