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+           ovni - Obtuse but Versatile nOS-V Instrumentation
+
+The ovni instrumentation project is composed of a runtime library (libovni.so),
+which generates a fast binary trace, and post-processing tools such as the
+emulator (emu), which transform the binary trace to the PRV format, suitable to
+be loaded in Paraver.
+
+The libovni.so library is licensed under MIT, while the rest of tools are GPLv3
+unless otherwise stated.
+
+For more information, take a look at the doc/ directory.