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@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ single database.
 
 The core of this code has been derived from open-source leveldb.
 
-leveldb: A key-value store
-Authors: Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com) and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)
-
 The code under this directory implements a system for maintaining a
 persistent key/value store.