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+sinatra
+rethinkdb
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+Copyright (c) 2010 Nick Plante
+
+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 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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 # What is it #
 
-A simple [Pastie.org](http://pastie.org)-like web application showing how to use **RethinkDB as a backend for Sinatra applications**. 
-The app was inspired by Nick Plante's [toopaste](https://github.com/zapnap/toopaste) project.
+A simple [Pastie.org](http://pastie.org)-like web application inspired by Nick Plante's [toopaste](https://github.com/zapnap/toopaste) project
+showing how to use **RethinkDB as a backend for Sinatra applications**. 
 
 The app demos the following functionality: