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+amazon Plugin for DokuWiki
+
+All documentation for this plugin can be found at
+http://www.dokuwiki.org/amazon
+
+If you install this plugin manually, make sure it is installed in
+lib/plugins/amazon/ - if the folder is called different it
+will not work!
+
+Please refer to http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins for additional info
+on how to install plugins in DokuWiki.
+
+----
+Copyright (C) Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+See the COPYING file in your DokuWiki folder for details