diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Prawn may be used under Matz's terms for Ruby, or GPLv2 or GPLv3. See LICENSE
-for Matz's terms, or GPLv2 and GPLv3 files.
+Prawn may be used under Matz's original licensing terms for Ruby, or GPLv2 or GPLv3. 
+See LICENSE for Matz's terms, or GPLv2 and GPLv3 files.