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+## Contributing to MacroBase
+
+When you contribute code, you affirm that the contribution is your original work and that you 
+license the work to the project under the project's open source license. Whether or not you 
+state this explicitly, by submitting any copyrighted material via pull request, email, or 
+other means you agree to license the material under the project's open source license and 
+warrant that you have the legal authority to do so.
diff --git a/src/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+
                                  Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
                         http://www.apache.org/licenses/
@@ -175,8 +176,18 @@
 
    END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 
-   Copyright 2016 Peter Bailis.
-   All rights reserved.
+   APPENDIX: How to apply the Apache License to your work.
+
+      To apply the Apache License to your work, attach the following
+      boilerplate notice, with the fields enclosed by brackets "[]"
+      replaced with your own identifying information. (Don't include
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+
+   Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -188,4 +199,5 @@
    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
\ No newline at end of file
+   limitations under the License.
+