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 OpenRS2 uses version 1.1 of the [Developer Certificate of Origin][dco] (DCO) to
 certify that contributors agree to license their code under OpenRS2's license
-(see the Copyright section below). To confirm that a contribution meets the
+(see the License section below). To confirm that a contribution meets the
 requirements of the DCO, a `Signed-off-by:` line must be added to the Git
 commit message by passing `--signoff` to the `git commit` invocation.