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+If you are interested in working on Reference Policy, feel free to contact the developers on the
+Reference Policy mailing list.  Patches should be contributed on GitHub as a pull request
+(preferred) or on the Reference Policy mailing list.  For more details, see the wiki page below:
+
+https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/wiki/HowToContribute