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+filestore-sharelatex
+====================
+
+An API for CRUD operations on binary files stored in S3
+
+License
+-------
+
+The code in this repository is released under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, version 3. A copy can be found in the `LICENSE` file.
+
+Copyright (c) ShareLaTeX, 2014.