diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2013, Nathan Froyd
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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+TRIVIAL-OCTET-STREAMS is a library to provide analogues to
+MAKE-STRING-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM.  I find myself frequently wanting
+such functionality, but it's not worth importing libraries like ironclad
+or flexi-streams to get access to them.