updates to readme

LICENSE-multiverse-3rdparty.txt

@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ Milliways
 
   Milliways - the storage at the backend of the Multiverse
 
-  Copyright 2016 J CUBE Inc. Tokyo, Japan.     
+  Copyright 2017 J CUBE Inc. Tokyo, Japan.     
 
   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");         
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.        

LICENSE-multiverse.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   Multiverse — a next generation storage back-end for Alembic
 
-  Copyright 2015—2016 J CUBE Inc. Tokyo, Japan.
+  Copyright 2015—2017 J CUBE Inc. Tokyo, Japan.
 
   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

README.md

@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
 # Multiverse
-Next generation data storage back-end for the widely used Alembic file format.
 
-> Authors: Aghiles Kheffache, Marco Pantaleoni, Bo Zhou, Paolo Berto Durante.
+Multiverse is the next-generation data storage back-end for the widely used Alembic file format.
+
+> Authors: Marco Pantaleoni, Aghiles Kheffache, Bo Zhou, Paolo Berto Durante.
+
 
 ## Repository organization
 
 The original upstream Alembic code resides in the [master](https://github.com/j-cube/multiverse/tree/master) branch.
 
-The `Multiverse` code for the `2.0.0` release, resides in its own [2.0.0/multiverse](https://github.com/j-cube/multiverse/tree/2.0.0/multiverse) branch and is the default landing branch for the repository when browsing on GitHub.
+In terms of version numbering, `Multiverse` stays in-sync with the Alembic releases: 
+
+the `Multiverse` code for the `1.7.1` release, resides in its own [1.7.1/multiverse](https://github.com/j-cube/multiverse/tree/1.7.1/multiverse) branch and is the default landing branch for the repository when browsing on GitHub.
 
 To use `Multiverse`, just checkout its branch:
 
 ```
 $ git clone https://github.com/j-cube/multiverse.git
 ...
 
-$ git checkout 2.0.0/multiverse
+$ git checkout 1.7.1/multiverse
 ```
 
-Note that both `Multiverse` code for `1.5.8` and `2.0.0` releases match Alembic API 1.5.8 and these branch could be merged and even fast-forwarded on the upstream `1.5.8` tag.
-
-Support for Alembic API v1.6+ will be added after SIGGRAPH 2016.
 
 ## Multiverse dependencies
 
@@ -30,14 +31,23 @@ In addition to the original Alembic dependencies, `Multiverse` needs the followi
 * [msgpack 1.0.1+](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/releases/download/cpp-1.0.1/msgpack-1.0.1.tar.gz)
 * [boost 1.48.0+](http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.48.0/boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2/download) compiled also with `chrono`, `filesystem`, `system` (in addition to the original `program_options`, `thread` and `python`)
 
+### "Classic" Git and Milliways
+
+`Multiverse` source contains [Milliways](https://github.com/j-cube/milliways) "The storage at the back-end of the Multiverse". Milliways is a high-performance on-disk tree-based key-value store, used in Multiverse as an optional pluggable back-end to `libgit2`. `Milliways` was created to improve performance over the "classic" Multiverse Git backend by introducing a single file store database. As of release 1.7.1 we default to Milliways and a single .abc file is created, making the Git repository non visible to the user. CLassic Git repository can always be created optionall. 
+
+
+## Research
+
+`Multiverse` and `Milliways` are research projects by J CUBE Inc. Multiverse was published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 in Kobe, Japan. MOre information on [J CUBE Research](http://j-cube.jp/research).
+
 ## Multiverse license
 
 `Multiverse` modifications and additions are:
 
 ```
 Multiverse - a next generation storage back-end for Alembic
 
-Copyright 2015—2016 J CUBE Inc. Tokyo, Japan.     
+Copyright 2015—2017 J CUBE Inc. Tokyo, Japan.     
                                                                      
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");         
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.