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Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

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+libnvme
+-------
+
+This is the libnvme development C library. libnvme provides type
+defintions for NVMe specification structures, enumerations, and bit
+fields, helper functions to construct, dispatch, and decode commands
+and payloads, and utilities to connect, scan, and manage nvme devices
+on a Linux system.
+
+The public specification is the authority to resolve any protocol
+discrepencies with this library. For more info on NVM Express, please see:
+
+  http://nvmexpress.org
+
+Subscribe to linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org for linux-nvme related discussions
+and development for both kernel and userspace. The list is archived here:
+
+  http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvme
+
+License
+-------
+
+All software contained within this repo is currently licensed LGPL, see
+COPYING for more information.
+
+Keith Busch 2020-02-06