diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Authors
+--------
+
+Gwenaël Rémond <gremond@cadoles.com> lead developer
+Emmanuel Garette <egarette@cadoles.com> contributor
+
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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+++ b/COPYING
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+Tiramisu is placed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 as 
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the 
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+See gpl-3.0.txt for more informations.
+
+The documentation is licenced under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
+
+See ccbysa3.0.txt or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US for informations
+
diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,21 +1,9 @@
 LICENSES
 ---------
 
-Tiramisu is under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 as 
-published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the 
-License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-See gpl-3.0.txt for more informations.
-
-The documentation is licenced under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
-
-See ccbysa3.0.txt or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US for informations
-
-Contributors:
-
-Gwenaël Rémond <gremond@cadoles.com> lead developer
-Emmanuel Garette <egarette@cadoles.com> contributor
+see COPYING for licences of the code and the documentation
 
+see AUTHORS for the details about the tiramisu team
 
 
 
diff --git a/doc/rst2man.py b/doc/rst2man.py
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+++ b/doc/rst2man.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# unproudly borrowed from David Goodger's rst2html.py
+
+"""
+A minimal front end to the Docutils Publisher, producing HTML.
+"""
+
+try:
+    import locale
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+except:
+    pass
+
+from docutils.core import publish_cmdline, default_description
+# ____________________________________________________________
+from docutils import nodes, utils
+from docutils.parsers.rst import roles
+from docutils.writers import manpage
+
+"""
+description of the new roles:
+
+`:api:` : link to the code
+
+- code.py becomes api/code.html
+- code.Code.code_test becomes api/code.Code.code_test.html
+- code.Code() becomes api/code.Code.html
+
+`:doc:`a link to an internal file
+example become example.html
+
+ref: link with anchor as in an external file 
+
+:ref:`toto#titi` becomes toto.html#titi 
+"""
+from os.path import splitext
+
+def api_reference_role(role, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner,
+                    options={}, content=[]):
+    basename = text
+    if "(" in text:
+        basename = text.split("(")[0]
+    if ".py" in text:
+        basename = splitext(text)[0]                
+    if "test_" in text:
+        refuri = "api/" + "tiramisu.test." + basename + '.html'
+    else:
+        refuri = "api/" + "tiramisu." + basename + '.html'
+    roles.set_classes(options)
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, utils.unescape(text), refuri=refuri,
+                        **options)
+    return [node], []
+
+roles.register_local_role('api', api_reference_role)
+
+def doc_reference_role(role, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner,
+                    options={}, content=[]):
+    refuri = text + '.html'
+    roles.set_classes(options)
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, utils.unescape(text), refuri=refuri,
+                        **options)
+    return [node], []
+
+roles.register_local_role('doc', doc_reference_role)
+
+def ref_reference_role(role, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner,
+                    options={}, content=[]):
+    fname, anchor = text.split('#')
+    refuri = fname + '.html#' + anchor 
+    roles.set_classes(options)
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, utils.unescape(anchor), refuri=refuri,
+                        **options)
+    return [node], []
+
+roles.register_local_role('ref', ref_reference_role)
+
+# ____________________________________________________________
+
+description = ("Generates plain unix manual documents.  " + default_description)
+
+publish_cmdline(writer=manpage.Writer(), description=description)
+