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-### bear : a set of statistics functions for erlang
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-Currently bear is focused on use inside the Folsom Erlang metrics library but all of these functions are generic and useful in other situations.
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-Pull requests accepted!
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-#### Available under the Apache 2.0 License
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+============
+couchdb-bear
+============
+
+A set of statistics functions for erlang. Currently bear is focused on use 
+inside the Folsom Erlang metrics library but all of these functions are generic 
+and useful in other situations.
+
+This is a fork of https://github.com/boundary/bear project.
+
+License
+=======
+
+Apache 2.0
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