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+Author: Jim Rybarski <jim@rybarski.com>
+
+nd2reader is based on the read_nd2 module from the SLOTH library (http://pythonhosted.org/SLOTH/_modules/sloth/read_nd2.html).
+Thanks to M.Kauer and B.Kauer for solving the hardest part of this puzzle.
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@@ -9,8 +9,4 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-Author: Jim Rybarski <jim@rybarski.com>
-
-Thanks to M.Kauer and B.Kauer who wrote the [SLOTH library](http://pythonhosted.org/SLOTH/_modules/sloth/read_nd2.html), upon which nd2reader is based.
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+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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