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+Alberto Pose
+Angel Alonso
+Ben Orenstein
+Bill Casarin
+Christopher Joslyn
+Daniel Hahler
+Elliot Murphy
+Eustaquio Rangel
+Henrik Nyh
+Honza Pokorny
+Jakub Nawalaniec
+James F. Herdman
+Jon Bernard
+Kozo NISHIDA
+Leandro Pincini
+Marc Weber
+Marcin Kulik
+Marjan.Hratson
+Micah Elliott
+Michael Sanders
+Naveed Massjouni
+Rob Hudson
+Rok Garbas
+Sebastian Schulze
+Srushti Ambekallu
+Stephen Tudor
+Steven Oliver
+Stuart Colville
+Tom Adams
+Zied ABID
+fo60213
+marutanm
+msanders
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+Copyright (c) 2011 see AUTHORS
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
+use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
+of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
+so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
+
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+Snippets
+========
+
+This repository contains snippets files for various programming languages for
+the famous [snipMate][1] plugin for vim. This repository is
+community-maintained and many people have contributed snippet files and other
+improvements already.
+
+[vim-snipmate][1] was originally started by [Michael Sanders][2] who has now
+unfortunately abandoned the project. [Rok Garbas][3] is now maintaining a
+[fork][4] of the project in hopes of improving the existing code base.
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+For a list of authors, please see the `AUTHORS` files.
+
+License
+-------
+
+Just as the original snipMate plugin, all the snippets are licensed under the
+terms of the MIT license.
+
+
+[1]: http://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate
+[2]: http://github.com/msanders
+[3]: http://github.com/garbas
+[4]: http://github.com/garbas/vim-snipmate