diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index b901474bf..67a4a72aa 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 
 Cloud Hypervisor is an open source project licensed under the [Apache v2
 License](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) and the [BSD 3
-Clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) license. Contributions
-can be made under either license or both. Individual files contain details of
-their licensing and changes to that file are under the same license unless the
-contribution changes the license of the file. When importing code from a third
-party project (e.g. Firecracker or CrosVM) please respect the license of those
-projects.
+Clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) license. Individual files
+contain details of their licensing and changes to that file are under the same
+license unless the contribution changes the license of the file. When importing
+code from a third party project (e.g. Firecracker or CrosVM) please respect the
+license of those projects.
+
+New code should be under the [Apache v2
+License](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0).
 
 ## Coding Style
 
@@ -63,11 +65,9 @@ you want to merge your changes to `cloud-hypervisor`:
 2. Within your fork, create a branch for your contribution.
 3. [Create a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork/)
    against the main branch of the Cloud Hypervisor repository.
-4. Add reviewers to your pull request and then work with your reviewers to address
-   any comments and obtain minimum of 2 [maintainers](MAINTAINERS.md) approvals.
-   To update your pull request amend existing commits whenever applicable and
+4. To update your pull request amend existing commits whenever applicable and
    then push the new changes to your pull request branch.
-5. Once the pull request is approved, one of the maintainers will merge it.
+5. Once the pull request is approved it can be integrated.
 
 ## Issue tracking