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+o3-base
+=======
+This project seeks to replace o2-base as an easy python base to build IRC bots
+on. It is not related to the faile oonbotti3 project, but is rather based on
+the IRC bot framework of hynneflip.
+
+License
+-------
+Everything in this repo is under UNLICENSE / CC0.