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# This is a fork!
This repository has been forked from https://github.com/luaj/luaj.
-Old fork notice:
-This repository has been forked from the original CVS sources of Luaj.
+The commit history has been converted to make sure that the original work of
+James Roseborough and Ian Farmer and fork work of luaj/luaj is not lost.
+
+Original repository fork notice:
+
+The original repository has been forked from the original CVS sources of Luaj.
The commit history has been converted to make sure that the original work of
James Roseborough and Ian Farmer is not lost.
Unfortunately, I was not able to contact either James or Ian to hand over