diff --git a/content/getting-started/licensing.md b/content/getting-started/licensing.md
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--- 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).