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-# resply - a modern C++ redis client :honeybee:
+# A simple redis client written in modern C++17 🐝
 
+## Archive notice
 
-# License
+This project was concluded in 2018, when the school project finished.  
+It is preserved purely for the sake of open source, no further development is planned.
+
+## License
 resply is licensed under the terms of the
 [Boost Software License, Version 1.0](http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)