<header><h2>Contributor Agreements</h2></header>
<div class="entry-content">
<p>
- Every non-trival contribution to be
+ Every non-trivial contribution to be
covered by a signed
Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
We have modelled our policy based on the practice of
the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed
to OpenSSL and thereby allow us to defend the project should
there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future
- time.</p>
+ time.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ A submission is trivial if it is considered trivial under copyright
+ law. Since we are not lawyers, we place the bar for trivial
+ contributions very high. For example: corrections of grammatical or
+ typographical errors (including misspelled function names in manual
+ pages), simple whitespace changes and in some cases one-line
+ bugfixes might be accepted as trivial without requiring a CLA.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ In practice, it is required that the author (in the git commit
+ message) and all approving team members (in the pull request thread)
+ agree that a change is trivial. The reviewers will normally post
+ a statement to the effect of "I agree that it is a trivial change."
+ </p>
<p>
- <em>Please make sure that the email
+ <em>When filling in the CLA, please make sure that the email
address matches the one that you use for the "Author" in your
git commits. List multiple email addresses if necessary.</em>
</p>
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