+# Scope
+
+The set of monitoring plugins in this repository is intended to serve
+as icinga / nagios / .. checks for DANE enabled network services. The
+central functionality therefore is checking whether the services
+conforms with the DANE records. However, all service plugins are also
+supposed to work as *the* plugin for each service and should be able
+to monitor all relevant properties.
+
# Getting the Code
The main repository is located at [git.siccegge.de][1] but mirrors can
[1]: https://git.siccegge.de/?p=dane-monitoring-plugins.git
[2]: https://gitlab.com/siccegge/dane-monitoring-plugins
-[3]: https://github.com/siccegge/dane-monitoring-plugins
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+[3]: https://github.com/siccegge/dane-monitoring-plugins
+
+# Dependencies
+
+The plugins need `pyasn1`, `pyasn1-modules` and the python `unbound`
+as well as python3. The `check_dnssec` module needs additionally the
+python `ldns` module. Unfortunately the unbound package in Debian only
+provides python2 modules currently. Building unbound with python3
+support from source works fine however.
+
+# License
+
+Unfortunately the problems at hand tend to result in a dependency on
+OpenSSL which makes plain GPL inviable. Until a proper decision is
+made you can assume GPLv3 with OpenSSL exception