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-libfprint
-=========
+# libfprint
 
 libfprint is part of the fprint project:
 https://fprint.freedesktop.org/
 
+## History
+
 libfprint was originally developed as part of an academic project at the
 University of Manchester with the aim of hiding differences between different
 consumer fingerprint scanners and providing a single uniform API to application
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ from this one, although I try to keep them as similar as possible (I'm not
 hiding anything in the academic branch, it's just the open source release
 contains some commits excluded from the academic project).
 
+## License
+
 THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DOES NOT ENDORSE THIS THIS SOFTWARE RELEASE AND
 IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CODE CONTAINED WITHIN, OR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED
 BY USING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE. Development does not happen on