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+    Piper
+    Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Queen Mary, University of London
+
+    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 AUTHOR 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.
+
+    Except as contained in this notice, the names of the Centre for
+    Digital Music; Queen Mary, University of London; and Chris Cannam
+    shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale,
+    use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
+    authorization.
+

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+# Piper C++
+
+Supporting code in C++ for the Piper audio feature extractor protocol,
+primarily for making Vamp plugins work with the Piper protocol.
+
+Includes:
+
+ * code to adapt Piper messages to the classes used in the Vamp SDK
+
+ * a command-line converter between Piper serialisations (via Vamp SDK
+   classes)
+ 
+ * a server that makes Vamp plugins available via Piper messages
+
+Directories:
+
+*vamp-json* -- convert between Piper JSON messages and Vamp SDK classes
+
+*vamp-capnp* -- convert between Piper Cap'n Proto messages and Vamp
+ abstractions
+
+*vamp-support* -- support classes for the above
+
+*vamp-server* -- main programs for command-line converter and server
+
+*vamp-client* -- logic to make Piper servers available to Vamp hosts
+ through a Vamp-like API
+
+*vamp-client/qt* -- logic specific to hosts written with Qt
+
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/piper-audio/piper-cpp.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/piper-audio/piper-cpp)
+
+## Authors and licensing
+
+Written by Chris Cannam at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary,
+University of London.
+
+Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Queen Mary, University of London, provided
+under a BSD-style licence. See the file COPYING for details.
+