diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ receives as a public, collaborative project.  Please
 comprehensive explanation of the most popular Free Software copyright
 license, the GNU General Public License (``GNU GPL'', or sometimes just
 ``GPL'') -- both version 2 (``GPLv2'') and version 3 (``GPLv3'') -- and
-teaches lawyers, software developers, managers and business people how to use
+teaches lawyers, software developers, managers and businesspeople how to use
 the GPL (and GPL'd software) successfully both as a community-building
 ``Constitution'' for a software project, and to incorporate copylefted
 software into a new Free Software business and in existing, successful
