From b89ae08522b13eaca32e519988dfdaaa065c24bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Johnson <steve@graffitilabs.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 22:49:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add some main page info

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 Pillow: a modern fork of PIL
 ============================
 
+Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the
+Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors.
+
+Pillow >= 2.0.0 supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3.
+
+Pillow < 2.0.0 supports Python versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7.
+
+For general information including installation instructions, see `README.rst`_.
+If you can't find the information you need, try the old `PIL Handbook`_, but be
+aware that it was last updated for PIL 1.1.5.
+
+.. _README.rst: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/blob/master/README.rst
+.. _PIL Handbook: http://effbot.org/imagingbook/pil-index.htm
+
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2