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 ### Contribution
 
 Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
-for inclusion in Serde by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
+for inclusion in tokio-core by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
 dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.