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+# GPSBabel
+This is the source code for [GPSBabel](http://www.gpsbabel.org), the free software project to
+manage GPS data (waypoints, tracks, routes) in your GPSes or in related programs.
+
+##News 
+We moved the source here on July 31 because [Google Code is shutting 
+down](http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html) and 
+there is a large inertia in the open source world for Git in general and Github specifically.  
+As a result, some of our doc with our last release will now point to links on code.google.com
+that will no longer work.  If you find doc that is out of date, please let us know.  (Better yet,
+please send pull requests with fixes.)
+
+Chief Babel-Head
+@robertlipe