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@@ -160,15 +160,7 @@ feature branch.  Post a comment in the pull request afterwards; GitHub does
 not send out notifications when you add commits.
 
 
-### CONTRIBUTOR LICENSE AGREEMENT
-
-The current state of affairs is that, in order to get a patch accepted, you need
-to sign Node.js's [contributor license agreement][]. You only need to do that
-once.
-
-
 [issue tracker]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/issues
 [libuv mailing list]: http://groups.google.com/group/libuv
 [IRC]: http://webchat.freelibuv.net/?channels=libuv
 [Google C/C++ style guide]: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml
-[contributor license agreement]: http://nodejs.org/cla.html