License

LICENSE.md

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+Copyright 2017 Citus Data Inc.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.

README.md

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 # WAL-G
 
-WAL-G 
+WAL-G is an archival and restoration tool for Postgres. 
+
+WAL-G is the successor of WAL-E with a number of key differences. WAL-G uses LZ4 compression, multiple processors and non-exclusive base backups for Postgres. More information on the design and implementation of WAL-G can be found (here)[]
 
 **Table of Contents**  
 - [Installation](#installation)  
 - [Configuration](#configuration)  
 - [Usage](#usage)  
 - [Development](#development)  
 	- [Installing](#installing)  
-	- [Testing](#testing)
+	- [Testing](#testing)  
+- [Authors](#authors)  
+- [License](#license)  
+- [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
 
 Installation
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-A precompiled binary for Linux AMD 64 of the latest version of WAL-G can be obtained like so:
+A precompiled binary for Linux AMD 64 of the latest version of WAL-G can be obtained under the Releases tab or like so:
 
 ```
 curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/wal-g/wal-g/releases/latest \
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 * [Katie Li](https://github.com/katie31)
 * [Daniel Farina](https://github.com/fdr)
 
-See also the list of [contributors](https://github.com/your/project/contributors) who participated in this project.
+See also the list of [contributors](https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/graphs/contributors) who participated in this project.
 
 License
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