diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 40afe6acd..789c20bea 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@
 
 All authors to the project retain copyright to their work. However, to ensure
 that they are only submitting work that they have rights to, we are requiring
-everyone to acknowldge this by signing their work.
+everyone to acknowledge this by signing their work.
 
-Any copyright notices in this repos should specify the authors as "The
-heptio/aws-quickstart authors".
+Any copyright notices in this repo should specify the author as "Heptio, Inc."
 
 To sign your work, just add a line like this at the end of your commit message: