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-Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
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-The full suite of pictographic icons, examples, and documentation can be found at:
-http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
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+#Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
+
+The full suite of pictographic icons, examples, and documentation can be found at:
+http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
+
+##Contact
+- Email: dave@davegandy.com
+- Twitter: http://twitter.com/fortaweso_me
+- Work: http://lemonwi.se co-founder
+
+##License
+The Font Awesome webfont, CSS, and LESS files are licensed under CC BY 3.0:
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
+A mention of 'Font Awesome - http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome'
+in human-readable source code is considered acceptable attribution.
+