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 This is the source code for my personal website.
 Unless stated otherwise, all content is MIT-licensed.
 
-# Theme licensing
-The theme is MIT licensed by Zach Holman and available at
-[holman/left](https://github.com/holman/left).
-
 # w3c compliance continuous integration
 Travis CI builds the static website with Jekyll and uses
 [validate.rb](validate.rb) to check content for w3c compliance.