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+This package is a brotli compressor and decompressor implemented in Go.
+It was translated from the reference implementation (https://github.com/google/brotli)
+with the `c2go` tool at https://github.com/andybalholm/c2go.
+
+I am using it in production with https://github.com/andybalholm/redwood.