make the version number low for alpha release
Make readme more descriptive
Update name and verison number
Add MIT License.
Change license to GNU GPL

This is required really, since we're using a library that is under GPL.
Found out that GPL can use MIT, but not the other way around because MIT
is more permissive.

For future reference on choosing a license http://choosealicense.com is
an excellent reference.
Merge pull request #2 from Graham42/master

Renamed and relicensed