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+* Guile-FLAC
+
+Guile-FLAC is a [[https://xiph.org/flac][FLAC]] {en,de}coder implemented in GNU Guile.
+It aims to be a readable yet useable implementation.
+
+** License
+    Guile-FLAC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+    the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+    Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
+    any later version.  Please see =COPYING= file for the terms of GNU General
+    Public License.
+
+** Requirements
+    - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile]], version 2.0.12 or later
+
+** Build-time dependencies
+- GNU Guile development files (something with =dev= suffix, e.g.
+  =guile-3.0-dev= on Ubuntu GNU/Linux)
+- texinfo
+- make
+- automake
+- autoconf