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 ## Contribute
 
-Cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead is the result of contributions from over 800 volunteers under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. The code and content of the game is free to use, modify, and redistribute for any purpose whatsoever. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details.
+Cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead is the result of contributions from over 900 volunteers under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. The code and content of the game is free to use, modify, and redistribute for any purpose whatsoever. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details.
 Some code distributed with the project is not part of the project and is released under different software licenses, the files covered by different software licenses have their own license notices.
 
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