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@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ FSST is a string compression algorithm meant for use in database systems. It was
 [Peter Boncz, Thomas Neumann, and Viktor Leis][whitepaper]. It provides 1-3GB/sec compression
 and decompression of strings at compression rates competitive with or better than LZ4.
 
-**NOTE**: This  current implementation is still in-progress, please use at your own risk.
+This implementation is somewhat inspired by the [MIT-licensed implementation] from the paper authors, written in C++,
+but it is mostly written from a careful reading of the paper.
+
+**NOTE: This current implementation is still in-progress and is not production ready, please use at your own risk.**
 
 
 [whitepaper]: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p2649-boncz.pdf
+[MIT-licensed implementation]: https://github.com/cwida/fsst