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+# This is a fork!
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+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 is not lost.
+Unfortunately, I was not able to contact either James or Ian to hand over
+ownership of the Github organization/repo as I have originally intended to.
+The community however seems interested enough to continue work on the original
+sources and therefore I have decided to make sure that any useful pull requests
+that may add some value to the original code base shall be merged in from now
+on.
+-- Benjamin P. Jung, Jan. 26th 2018
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