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 Libosl is simple:
 
-	- For libosl, all data stored in the osl tables are blobs,
-	libosl will never try to interpret the table contents.
+- For libosl, all data stored in the osl tables are blobs,
+libosl will never try to interpret the table contents.
 
-	- There is no fancy query language but only a relatively
-	simple C-API.
+- There is no fancy query language but only a relatively
+simple C-API.
 
-	- There's no support for network-access and libosl does not
-	use any table locking.
+- There's no network support for network-access and libosl
+only uses a very rudimentary table locking mechanism.
+
+- There are no dependencies on external libraries. An augmented
+version of the red-black tree implementation of the linux
+kernel is in included in the libosl package.
 
 Libosl is fast:
 
-	- It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing.
+- It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing.
 
-	 - An augmented version of the rbtree implementation of the
-	 linux kernel is used for lookups.
+- Red-black trees are used to make lookups fast.
 
 Libosl is portable:
 
-	- It is known to compile and run on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD,
-	NetBSD and Solaris.
+- It is known to compile and run on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD,
+NetBSD and Solaris.
 
-	- Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way.
+- Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way.
 
 Libosl is open source:
 
-	- Licensed under the GLP, version 2.
+- Licensed under the GPL, version 2.
 
 Apart from the library itself, the package also contains simple
 examples and an fsck program, oslfsck, which can be used to recover