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-OPENJPEG LIBRARY and APPLICATIONS
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+# OPENJPEG Library and Applications
 
-Details on folders hierarchy:
+## Details on folders hierarchy
 
 * src
   * lib
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 * tests: configuration files and utilities for the openjpeg test suite. All test images are located in 'http://openjpeg.googlecode.com/svn/data' folder.
 * cmake: cmake related files
 
-see LICENSE for license and copyright information.
-see INSTALL for installation procedures.
-see NEWS for user visible changes in successive releases.
-see CHANGES for per-revision changes.
+See [LICENSE](https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/LICENSE) for license and copyright information.
 
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-API/ABI
+See [INSTALL](https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/INSTALL) for installation procedures.
+
+See [NEWS](https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/blob/master/NEWS) for user visible changes in successive releases.
+
+## API/ABI
 
 OpenJPEG strives to provide a stable API/ABI for your applications. As such it
 only exposes a limited subset of its functions.  It uses a mecanism of
 exporting/hiding functions. If you are unsure which functions you can use in
 your applications, you should compile OpenJPEG using something similar to gcc:
--fvisibility=hidden compilation flag.
+`fvisibility=hidden` compilation flag.
 See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
 
 On windows, MSVC directly supports export/hidding function and as such the only