From 2de4acffb175c954f25e2a9acc7bfcb13282402c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Octavia Togami Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 20:24:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Change his/her & his to their in licensing.md This is consistent with the rest of the document and is more inclusive. --- content/getting-started/licensing.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/getting-started/licensing.md b/content/getting-started/licensing.md index 0a76570..085b973 100644 --- a/content/getting-started/licensing.md +++ b/content/getting-started/licensing.md @@ -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).