CC0 1.1 w/o gendered pronouns

[ryancdotorg]

Fixes

Partial fix for #1143 - no updates to non-English versions.

Description

Changes all "he or she" and "his or her" references to use singular they.

Checklist

• My pull request has a descriptive title (not a vague title like Update index.md).
• My pull request targets the default branch of the repository (main or master).
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  visible errors.

Developer Certificate of Origin

Developer Certificate of Origin

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[TimidRobot]

I have changed the merge destination to a branch. Actually updating the license is much more involved and is led by the Creative Commons Legal Team.

I will be reviewing this PR with the following goals:

1. preserve changes so they can inform license update process
2. ensure technical changes are as accurate as possible and the path to an update license is as short as possible

[oddhack]

As the OP on the underlying issue, I took a broader look and only see this happening elsewhere in CC-PDDC ("A certifier, moreover, dedicates any copyright interest he may have in the associated work..."), though I was literally searching for " he " and not doing a deep dive on all the license texts.

[ryancdotorg]

You can use grep -P '\b(he|she|his|her)\b' to look a bit more thoroughly - the \b looks for a word/non-word boundary and so will find these words at the start or end of a line as well as the middle.

[oddhack]

You can use grep -P '\b(he|she|his|her)\b' to look a bit more thoroughly - the \b looks for a word/non-word boundary and so will find these words at the start or end of a line as well as the middle.

Google has a little CI script based on the AOSP Coding with Respect guidelines to check for this stuff - see google/amber#897 . We are planning to integrate it into our CI soon and hopefully others will, or similar checks, as well. Above I was just searching on the website. Fortunately lawyers do not tend to use contractions :-)

[TimidRobot]

Requested changes:

• remove retired legal changes

Informational:

• diffs of HTML and TXT licenses
• Production Apache configuration is now in https://github.com/creativecommons/sre-salt-prime/blob/master/states/apache2/files/ccengine.conf, but I don't think a PR is needed for it. The relevent changes are documented here.