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 ### Contribution and License Agreement
 
-If you contribute code to marked, you are implicitly allowing your code to be
-distributed under the MIT license. You are also implicitly verifying that all
-code is your original work. `</legalese>`
+If you contribute code to this project, you are implicitly allowing your code
+to be distributed under the MIT license. You are also implicitly verifying that
+all code is your original work. `</legalese>`
 
 ## License