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deleted obvious clarification of definition of licensee

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This commit deletes the sentence, originating in some interim GPLv3
draft at the request of one (or possibly more than one) commercial
entity, clarifying that licensees can be individuals or
organizations. No other mainstream free software license, to my
knowledge, has seen the need to make this obvious point. Of course a
licensee can be organizational. Moreover, I have never encountered any
misconception in the real world to the effect that somehow GPL
licensees can only be natural persons. Indeed, any license that
prohibited organizations from being licensees would not be a free
software (or open source) license.
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Richard Fontana 2012-07-03 15:00:00 -04:00 • committed by Francois Marier
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"This License" refers to this document.
"The Program" refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
License. Each licensee is addressed as "you". "Licensees" and
"recipients" may be individuals or organizations.
License. Each licensee is addressed as "you".
To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work
in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an