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+Why this fork for LocalStack?
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+We forked the jpype project to add a SIGTERM signal handler to be used in `LocalStack <https://github.com/localstack/localstack>`
+We plan on contributing the changes upstream, should they be accepted.
+
 JPype is a Python module to provide full access to Java from 
 within Python. It allows Python to make use of Java only libraries,
 exploring and visualization of Java structures, development and testing