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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Stephen Seo
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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+# UDPConnection
+
+Provides a network connection over UDP, with verification of packet support via
+libsodium (optional). Implemented in C++, but is available via a C api, which
+should facilitate creating bindings for other programming languages if needed.
+
+This library is still a work in progress, so api breaking changes may happen
+in the future.
+
+## Compiling
+
+    mkdir buildRelease
+    cd buildRelease
+    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=True ..
+    make
+    make DESTDIR=install_destination install