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Clarify "between major version changes"

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This was diversely interpreted as "compatibility in the period between
two major version changes" (as intended) or "compatibility between two
versions whose major version is different" (unintended).

Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
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@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ At any point in time, we have a number of maintained branches consisting of:
these only get bug fixes and security fixes.
We use [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/). In particular, we maintain
API compatibility in the `master` branch between major version changes. We
also maintain ABI compatibility within LTS branches; see the next section for
details.
API compatibility in the `master` branch across minor version changes (e.g.
the API of 3.(x+1) is backward compatible with 3.x). We only break API
compatibility on major version changes (e.g. from 3.x to 4.0). We also maintain
ABI compatibility within LTS branches; see the next section for details.
## Backwards Compatibility