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 This script was originally written by [Peter Stephenson][2], who published it
-to the ZSH users mailing list (thereby making it public domain) in September
-2009. It was later revised by Guido van Steen and released under the BSD
-license (see below) as part of [the fizsh project][3] in January 2011.
+to the ZSH users mailing list in September 2009. It was later revised by Guido
+van Steen and released under the BSD license (see below) as part of [the fizsh
+project][3] in January 2011.
 
 It was later extracted from fizsh release 1.0.1, refactored heavily, and
 repackaged as both an [oh-my-zsh plugin][4] and as an independently loadable