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+Elgg
+Copyright (c) 2008-2013 See COPYRIGHT.txt
+
+See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for development credits.
+
+Elgg is managed by the Elgg Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was
+founded to govern, protect, and promote the Elgg open source social network
+engine. The Foundation aims to provide a stable, commercially and
+individually independent organization that operates in the best interest of Elgg
+as an open source project.
+
+The project site can be found at http://elgg.org/
+
+The Elgg project was started in 2004 by:
+Ben Werdmuller <ben@benwerd.com, http://benwerd.com> and
+Dave Tosh <davidgtosh@gmail.com>
+
+Elgg is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 and the
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) License. See LICENSE.txt
+in the root of the package you downloaded.
+
+For installation instructions, see INSTALL.txt.
+
+For upgrade instructions, see UPGRADE.txt.