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+# 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
+developers. The ultimate goal of the fprint project is to make fingerprint
+scanners widely and easily usable under common Linux environments.
+
+The academic university project runs off a codebase maintained separately
+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
+university computers and the project is not hosted at the university either.
+
+For more information on libfprint, supported devices, API documentation, etc.,
+see the homepage:
+https://fprint.freedesktop.org/
+
+libfprint is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1. See the COPYING file
+for the license text.
+
+Section 6 of the license states that for compiled works that use this
+library, such works must include libfprint copyright notices alongside the
+copyright notices for the other parts of the work. We have attempted to
+make this process slightly easier for you by grouping these all in one place:
+the AUTHORS file.
+
+libfprint includes code from NIST's NBIS software distribution:
+http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NBIS/index.html
+We include bozorth3 from the US export controlled distribution. We have
+determined that it is fine to ship bozorth3 in an open source project,
+see https://fprint.freedesktop.org/us-export-control.html
+
+## Historical links
+
+Older versions of libfprint are available at:
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/fprint/files/
+
+Historical mailing-list archives:
+http://www.reactivated.net/fprint_list_archives/
+
+Historical website:
+http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/