Cleanup readme

Licensing section was not used and adding all the authors to a file is redundant given the git history.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,16 +18,6 @@ See the [Wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella/wiki) for build ins
 
 ## How to Contribute
 
-### External Contributors
-
-I hereby place all my contributions in this codebase under an MIT
-licence, as specified [here](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
-- *Name Surname* (**email@domain**)
-
-### Contribution guideline
-
-Please add yourself in the `@author` doxygen  section of the file your are adding/editing
-with the same wording as the one you listed yourself in the external contributors section above,
-only replacing the word **contribution** by **file**
-
-Please read [CodingStandards.txt](https://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella/blob/develop/CodingStandards.txt) thoroughly before making alterations to the code base. Please do *NOT* use an editor that automatically reformats whitespace away from astylerc or the formatting guidelines as described in [CodingStandards.txt](https://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella/blob/develop/CodingStandards.txt).
+This repository uses the same [coding style](https://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella/blob/develop/CodingStandards.txt) as
+all of the cpp-ethereum projects. Please try to align with us in the gitter channel before making larger changes.
+Any contributions are welcome!