Copyleft/guide Changeset - e7ff8ce2af19

Changeset - e7ff8ce2af19

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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-19 17:38:07
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Make plurals agree.

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 in any way. It is confusing to say software is ``licensed for the
 public domain,'' or any phrase that implies the copyright holder gave
 express permission to take actions governed by copyright law.
 Copyright holders who state that they are releasing their code into
 the public domain are effectively renouncing copyright controls on
-the work.  The law gave the copyright holder exclusive controls over the
+the work.  The law gave the copyright holders exclusive controls over the
 work, and they chose to waive those controls.  Software that is, in
 this sense, in the public domain
 is conceptualized by the developer as having no copyright and thus no license. The software freedoms discussed in
 Section~\ref{Free Software Definition} are all granted because there is no
 legal system in play to take them away.

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