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-# NAC: Named-Based Access Control
+# NAC: Named-Based Access Control Library for NDN
 
+![Language](https://img.shields.io/badge/C%2B%2B-14-blue.svg)
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-Please submit any bugs or issues to the NAC issue tracker:
-https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nac/issues
+## Reporting bugs
+
+Please submit any bug reports or feature requests to the
+[NAC issue tracker](https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nac/issues).
+
+## Contributing
+
+We greatly appreciate contributions to the NAC code base, provided that they are
+licensed under the LGPL 3.0+ or a compatible license (see below).
+If you are new to the NDN software community, please read the
+[Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+to get started.
+
+## License
+
+NAC is an open source project licensed under the LGPL version 3.
+See [`COPYING.md`](COPYING.md) for more information.