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 # kemitix-checkstyle-ruleset
 
-Provides an extensive Checkstyle ruleset for use with `kemitix-parent`.
+Provides an extensive Checkstyle ruleset for use with Apache's `maven-checkstyle-plugin`.
 
-The ruleset includes rules from both the core Checkstyle 7.0 library and
-from the Sevntu-Checkstyle 1.21.0 library.  
+The ruleset includes checks from both the core Checkstyle library and from the Sevntu-Checkstyle library.
+
+## Requirements
+
+* [maven-checkstyle-plugin](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin/) 2.17+
+* [Checkstyle](http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/) 7.0+
+* [Sevntu-checkstyle](http://sevntu-checkstyle.github.io/sevntu.checkstyle/) 1.21.0+
+
+## Usage
+
+To use this ruleset in your `maven-checkstyle-plugin` configuration add `checkstyle`, `sevntu-checkstyle-maven-plugin` and `kemitix-checktyle-ruleset` as dependencies of the `maven-checkstyle-plugin`.
+
+You need to include `checkstyle` as the version bundled with the `maven-checkstyle-plugin` is not up-to-date enough.
+
+````
+<properties>
+    <checkstyle.version>7.0</checkstyle.version>
+    <sevntu-checkstyle-maven-plugin.version>1.21.0</sevntu-checkstyle-maven-plugin.version>
+    <kemitix-checkstyle-ruleset.version>1.0.0</kemitix-checkstyle-ruleset.version>
+</properties>
+<plugins>
+    <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+        <dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
+                <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+                <version>${checkstyle.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.github.sevntu.checkstyle</groupId>
+                <artifactId>sevntu-checkstyle-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${sevntu-checkstyle-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>net.kemitix</groupId>
+                <artifactId>kemitix-checkstyle-ruleset</artifactId>
+                <version>${kemitix-checkstyle-ruleset.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+    </plugin><!-- maven-checkstyle-plugin -->
+````
 
 ## Rules Enabled