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+My bachelor thesis repository
+====
+
+The text of my Bc. thesis lives here.
+
+TODO: Describe, what the thesis is about maybe.
+
+Compilation
+---
+
+The compilation depends on VeraPDF v1.16.1, some subset of TeX Live, and a Make implementation.
+
+```sh
+cd en
+make
+```
+
+Acknowledgements
+===
+
+The template was created by Martin Mareš, Arnošt Komárek and Michal Kulich. The
+original READMEs are preserved as `README.orig` and `README.en`.
+
+This repository also contains the PDF/A profile for VeraPDF required by my
+university. The profile is taken from <https://cuni.cz/UK-7987.html>.
+
+License
+===
+
+Please ask me at [this email](mailto:thesis@pokemon.ledoian.cz), it is
+complicated by the fact that this repository contains the template and the
+VeraPDF profile, which are publicly available but it is not clear under what
+terms they might be distributed. However, I am almost sure that they were meant
+to be used, so there should be no issue with me including it.
+
+If you are a lawyer and have sound reasoning behind why those files should not
+be part of this repository, please let me know. That being said, since
+everything is publicly available, I do not think me including this does any
+harm or damage.
+
+Obviously, this is source-available :-) Also, when the definitive thesis is
+published, I will include a link to it in this README.
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