Merge pull request #10 from robdennis/master

#5 - modified classifiers, version number, authors, summary changelog
Merge pull request #11 from robdennis/master

fixes #6 - copyright lines changed
Merge pull request #12 from robdennis/master

fixes #7 and #9
Merge pull request #13 from robdennis/master

Documentation corrections following pull request review
fixes #8
changed user links to actually be hyperlinks

since @-mentions don't work like that in readmes
added badges to the readme file
corrected badge URL
fixes #15 - incorrect homepage URL in setup.py will make it to pypi.python.org and mess it up there

bumping version number to 5.0.1 (though this should be considered a development version)