diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Neuroethology Lab, University of Tuebingen,
+                    Jan Grewe <jan.grewe@g-node.org>,
+                    Christian Kellner <kellner@bio.lmu.de>.
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
+are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
+   of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
+   list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other
+   materials provided with the distribution.
+
+3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may
+   be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
+   prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY
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+DAMAGE.
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# NixView
+
+A PyQt based viewer for nix datafiles
+
+--- under development ---
+
+## Nix 
+
+The nix data model is a generic model for storing scientific data with attached metadata.
+
+For more information on nix see https://github.com/G-Node/nix
+
+
+## Dependencies
+
+- PyQt5
+- nixio
+
diff --git a/nixview/info.json b/nixview/info.json
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+{
+  "NAME": "NixView",
+  "VERSION": "0.1",
+  "DESCRIPTION": "Viewer for NIX data files",
+  "AUTHOR": "Jan Grewe, Lorand Madai-Tahy, Alexander Ott, Christian Kellner",
+  "COPYRIGHT": "(c) 2020, Neuroethology lab, Uni Tuebingen",
+  "CONTACT": "jan.grewe@g-node.org",
+  "HOMEPAGE": "https://github.com/bendalab/nixview-python",
+  "CLASSIFIERS": [
+    "Programming Language :: Python",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License"
+  ]
+}
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diff --git a/nixview/info.py b/nixview/info.py
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+import json
+import os
+
+_HERE = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+with open(os.path.join(_HERE, "info.json")) as infofile:
+    _INFODICT = json.load(infofile)
+
+VERSION = _INFODICT["VERSION"]
+AUTHOR = _INFODICT["AUTHOR"]
+COPYRIGHT = _INFODICT["COPYRIGHT"]
+CONTACT = _INFODICT["CONTACT"]
+HOMEPAGE = _INFODICT["HOMEPAGE"]
+CLASSIFIERS = _INFODICT["CLASSIFIERS"]
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+import glob
+import json
+import os
+
+# Use setuptools compulsorily, as the distutils doesn't work out well for the
+# installation procedure. The 'install_requires' and 'data_files' have better
+# support in setuptools.
+from setuptools import setup
+
+
+with open(os.path.join("nixview", "info.json")) as infofile:
+    infodict = json.load(infofile)
+
+NAME = infodict["NAME"]
+VERSION = infodict["VERSION"]
+AUTHOR = infodict["AUTHOR"]
+CONTACT = infodict["CONTACT"]
+HOMEPAGE = infodict["HOMEPAGE"]
+CLASSIFIERS = infodict["CLASSIFIERS"]
+DESCRIPTION = infodict["DESCRIPTION"]
+
+README = "README.md"
+with open(README) as f:
+    description_text = f.read()
+
+packages = [
+    "nixview",
+]
+
+install_req = ["nixio>=1.4.0", "PyQt5"]
+
+data_files = [("icons", glob.glob(os.path.join("icons", "*.png"))),
+              ("icons", glob.glob(os.path.join("icons", "*.ic*"))),
+              (".", ["LICENSE"])]
+
+setup(
+    name=NAME,
+    version=VERSION,
+    description=DESCRIPTION,
+    author=AUTHOR,
+    author_email=CONTACT,
+    url=HOMEPAGE,
+    packages=packages,
+    install_requires=install_req,
+    include_package_data=True,
+    data_files=data_files,
+    long_description=description_text,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,
+    license="BSD",
+    entry_points={"gui_scripts": ["nixview = nixview:main []"]}
+)
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