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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bugst/go-serial.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bugst/go-serial)
+
+A cross-platform serial library for go-lang.
+
+Documentation and examples: https://godoc.org/go.bug.st/serial
+
+License: https://github.com/bugst/go-serial/blob/master/LICENSE
+
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 //
 
 /*
-This is a cross-platform serial library for go.
+A cross-platform serial library for the go language.
 
 The canonical import for this library is go.bug.st/serial so the import line
 is the following: