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Improve the wording of the diversity of licenses
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Signed-off-by: Carmen Bianca BAKKER <carmenbianca@fsfe.org>
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## How does license compatibility work? {#license-compatibility}

Free Software licenses are all different. Many licenses are compatible, meaning
that you can use code from multiple licenses in the same project and still be
able to respect the terms of each license simultaneously.
Free Software licenses often differ in detail, but always give you the right to
use, study, share, and improve the software. Many licenses are compatible,
meaning that you can use code from multiple licenses in the same project and
still be able to respect the terms of each license simultaneously.

Some licenses are [less permissive than others](#copyleft-permissive-license),
meaning that a combined work containing code under both licenses must
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