Change his/her & his to their in licensing.md

This is consistent with the rest of the document and is more inclusive.
This commit is contained in:
Octavia Togami 2026-06-06 20:24:29 -07:00
parent d7889e5ad6
commit 2de4acffb1
No known key found for this signature in database

View file

@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Unfortunately, however, copyright law does not protect hardware objects.
[Copyright law is extremely powerful](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.en.html).
In fact, it grants the author of a work exclusive rights to use or distribute their work.
An author can grant permission to use his/her work under arbitrary conditions. Just for illustration, an author could
invent for example a "coffee license" and impose that whoever uses his work has to offer the author a coffee.
An author can grant permission to use their work under arbitrary conditions. Just for illustration, an author could
invent for example a "coffee license" and impose that whoever uses their work has to offer the author a coffee.
Similarly, forever-open licenses grant users the right to use the work provided that they will redistribute any
derivative work using the same license again (copyleft).