diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTE b/docs/CONTRIBUTE
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--- a/docs/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
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-CONTRIBUTE
-
 To Think About When Contributing Source Code
 
  This document is intended to offer some guidelines that can be useful to keep
@@ -15,15 +13,13 @@ To Think About When Contributing Source Code
 The License Issue
 
  When contributing with code, you agree to put your changes and new code under
- the same license curl and libcurl is already using. Curl uses the MozPL, the
- Mozilla Public License, which is *NOT* compatible with the well known GPL,
- GNU Public License. We can never re-use sources from a GPL program in curl.
+ the same license curl and libcurl is already using.
+
  If you add a larger piece of code, you can opt to make that file or set of
  files to use a different license as long as they don't enfore any changes to
  the rest of the package and they make sense. Such "separate parts" can not be
- GPL either (although they should use "GPL compatible" licenses).
-
- Curl and libcurl will soon become dual licensed, MozPL/MITX!
+ GPL (as we don't want the FPL virus to attack users of libcurl) but they must
+ use "GPL compatible" licenses.
 
 Naming
 
@@ -72,6 +68,13 @@ Separate Patches Doing Different Things
  description exactly what they correct so that all patches can be selectively
  applied by the maintainer or other interested parties.
 
+Patch Against Recent Sources
+
+ Please try to get the latest available sources to make your patches
+ against. It makes my life so much easier. The very best is if you get the
+ most up-to-date sources from the CVS repository, but the latest release
+ archive is quite OK as well!
+
 Document
 
  Writing docs is dead boring and one of the big problems with many open source