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+# CLA Consent Records
+
+This folder contains a permanent archive of Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA) signatures for the Joplin project.
+
+Each file in this directory corresponds to a contributor who has signed the CLA. The file includes:
+
+- The pull request metadata where the signature was made.
+- All comments on the pull request, including the CLA signature comment.
+
+The purpose of this archive is to ensure that CLA signatures are preserved even if the original pull request or comments are deleted from GitHub.
+
+## File Format
+
+Each file is a `.json` file named using the contributor's GitHub username and user ID, for example:
+
+## Tool
+
+The consent record is generated by running `yarn saveClaConsentRecords` from the root of the project.