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 specific language governing permissions and limitations
 under the License.
 
+Summary
+=======
+
+Apache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development.
+It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work
+efficiently and seamlessly between many programming languages.  A language-neutral IDL
+is used to generate functioning client libraries and server-side handling frameworks.
+
+For More Information
+====================
+
+See the [Apache Thrift Web Site](http://thrift.apache.org/) for more information.
+
 Using Thrift with Perl
-=====================
+======================
 
 Thrift requires Perl >= 5.6.0