update licence, readme and version

Author: bgoli

README.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ StochPy is a versatile stochastic modeling package which is designed for stochas
 * File releases: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stochpy
 * Source code: https://github.com/SystemsBioinformatics/stochpy
 
+StochPy is open source software distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License, see LICENSE file for more details.
+
 ## Documentation
 
 Documentation can be found in the user guide (see Documentation directory or in [sourceforge](http://stochpy.sourceforge.net/html/userguide.html))
@@ -20,6 +22,11 @@ The following software is required before installing StochPy (see user guide for
 - [libxml2](http://xmlsoft.org) (optional)
 - [mpmath](http://mpmath.org) (optional)
 
+Install the StochPy dependencies with PIP using the following command (in your StochPy Python environment):
+```bash
+pip install numpy matplotlib python-libsbml mpmath lxml
+```
+
 #### Linux/MAC OS/Cygwin
 
 
@@ -181,7 +188,7 @@ StochPy: A Comprehensive, User-Friendly Tool for Simulating Stochastic Biologica
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079345
 
 ## Licence
-Copyright (c) 2011-2016, Timo R. Maarleveld, Brett G. Olivier, and Frank J. Bruggeman
-All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2011-2021, Timo R. Maarleveld, Brett G. Olivier, and Frank J. Bruggeman
+Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. All rights reserved.
 
-StochPy is distributed under a BSD style licence.
+StochPy is open source software distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License see LICENSE file for more details.

VersionUpdates.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Updates 2.4:
+------------
+- 
+
+
 Updates 2.3:
 ------------
 - improved sampling method to calculate extant cell species AND volumes (new)

setup.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import
 
 __doc__ = "StochPy (Stochastic modeling in Python) provides several stochastic simulation algorithms to simulate (bio)chemical systems of reactions in a stochastic manner."
-__version__ = "2.3"
+__version__ = "2.4"
 
 import os
 

stochpy/core2/version.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 """
 
 MAJOR = 2
-MINOR = 3
+MINOR = 4
 MICRO = 0
 STATUS = ''