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+# Copland Fossil Fork
+
+This checkout is the `copland` branch of Fossil, adding the built-in Copland
+skin and native Org documentation/wiki support. See [COPLAND.org](COPLAND.org)
+for build, behavior, maintenance, and single-binary distribution details. The
+upstream Fossil introduction is retained below.
+
+# About Fossil
+
+Fossil is a distributed version control system that has been widely
+used since 2007.  Fossil was originally designed to support the
+[SQLite](https://sqlite.org) project but has been adopted by many other
+projects as well.
+
+Fossil is self-hosting at <https://fossil-scm.org>.
+
+If you are reading this on GitHub, then you are looking at a Git mirror
+of the self-hosting Fossil repository.  The purpose of that mirror is to
+test and exercise Fossil's ability to export a Git mirror.  Nobody much
+uses the GitHub mirror, except to verify that the mirror logic works.  If
+you want to know more about Fossil, visit the official self-hosting site
+linked above.