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 ## How to contribute
 
-Anyone can propose third-party Middleware. The Hono maintainers and other contributors will discuss whether we accept the middleware or not. If it's OK, it will be maintained in this repository. The proposer will be the maintainer for the middleware and maintain it.
+Anyone can propose third-party Middleware. The Hono maintainers and other contributors will discuss whether we accept the middleware or not. If it's OK, it will be maintained in this repository. The proposer will be the _author_ for the middleware and maintain it.
 
-The middleware maintainer should respond to issues and review PRs related to the middleware as much as possible. The Hono maintainers sometimes will mention the middleware maintainer using an `@` like `@yusukebe Can you take a look?`.
+The middleware author should respond to issues and review PRs related to the middleware as much as possible. The Hono maintainers sometimes will mention the middleware author using an `@` like `@yusukebe Can you take a look?` and are not obligated to respond to issues or PRs related to middleware that they did not create.
 
 The specific flow is as follows
 
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 ## Author & License
 
-The Author of this repository is Yusuke Wada <<https://github.com/yusukebe>>. However, the code under the `packages/*` is in each Middleware author.
+The Author of this repository is Yusuke Wada <<https://github.com/yusukebe>>. However, the code under the `packages/*` is in each middleware author.
 Basically, distributed under the MIT license.