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 This extension is actually a fork of shatypes[1] which adds some other data types
 as crc32 and provides some fixes to original implementations.
 
-This project is a continuation of the project formerly at https://github.com/infofarmer/hashtypes.
-Many thanks to Andrey Ropp, Infofarmer, and others for their work and support on the transition.[2]
+This project is a continuation of the hashtypes project.
+Many thanks to Andrey Ropp, Infofarmer, and others for their work and support on the transition.
 
 [1]: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/shatypes
-[2]: https://github.com/infofarmer/hashtypes/issues/7