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+# Contributing to RTI Perftest
+
+### Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
+In order to accept your pull request, we need you to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Complete your CLA here: http://community.rti.com/cla. You only need to do this once, we cross-check your Github username with the list of contributors who have signed the CLA.