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+Zachary Yedidia <zyedida@gmail.com>
+Collin Warren <anatoly@somethinghub.com>
+
+Github users:
+
+
+For license and copyright information, see LICENSE instead.
+Thank you from all of us for using micro. And thank you to everyone who
+contributes, from bug reports to commits.