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@@ -5,5 +5,14 @@ komplete is a command-line completion engine for the
 [Kong CLI parser](https://github.com/alecthomas/kong)
 See [API Reference](https://abhinav.github.io/komplete/) for usage information.
 
+## History
+
+This library was originally developed as part of
+[git-spice](https://abhinav.github.io/git-spice/).
+It's been extracted into a separate repository
+to allow use from other projects.
+
+## License
+
 This software is made available under the BSD-3 license.
 See LICENSE for the full license text.