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 # GILD
 
+## The Generic Internet Listener Daemon
+
 This is ancient history, and never was meant for doing anything practical; it's essentially
 a joke. Its practical use - when it had any practical use - was to experiment with new 
 protocols.
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 jape: see HTTP in under 100 lines of shell script.
 
 Enjoy!
+
+## License
+
+GPL version 2. You never were going to use this for anything commercial, seriously.