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 ## Contributing
 
-BizHawk is Open Source Software, so you're free to modify it however you please, and if you do, we invite you to share! Under the permissive *MIT license*, this is optional, just be careful with reusing cores as some have copyleft licenses.
+BizHawk is Open Source Software, so you're free to modify it however you please, and if you do, we invite you to share! Under the permissive *MIT License*, this is optional, just be careful with reusing cores as some have copyleft licenses.
 
 If you'd like to fix bugs, check the issue tracker here on GitHub: