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+Conway Game of Life
+===================
+
+An implementation of the famous Game Of Life from Conway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life ) in C. It uses ncurses to display a randomly generated view that follows the rules of the Game Of Life.
+
+LICENSE
+=======
+TLDR; I don't give a damn to anything you can do using this code. It would just be nice to
+quote where the original code comes from.
+
+
+* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+* "THE NO-ALCOHOL BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
+* Phyks (webmaster@phyks.me) wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
+* can do whatever you want with this stuff (and you can also do whatever you want
+* with this stuff without retaining it, but that's not cool...). If we meet some 
+* day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a <del>beer</del> soda 
+* in return.
+*																		Phyks
+* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------