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diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index 7768600b..8c3a6d19 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -25,22 +25,31 @@ SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
 Authors/contributors include:
 
+A. Wilcox
 Alex Dowad
 Alexander Monakov
+Andrew Kelley
 Anthony G. Basile
 Arvid Picciani
+Bartosz Brachaczek
 Bobby Bingham
 Boris Brezillon
 Brent Cook
 Chris Spiegel
 Clément Vasseur
 Daniel Micay
+Daniel Sabogal
+Daurnimator
+David Edelsohn
 Denys Vlasenko
+Dmitry Ivanov
+Dmitry V. Levin
 Emil Renner Berthing
 Felix Fietkau
 Felix Janda
 Gianluca Anzolin
 Hauke Mehrtens
+He X
 Hiltjo Posthuma
 Isaac Dunham
 Jaydeep Patil
@@ -50,22 +59,29 @@ Jo-Philipp Wich
 Joakim Sindholt
 John Spencer
 Josiah Worcester
+Julien Ramseier
 Justin Cormack
 Khem Raj
 Kylie McClain
+Leah Neukirchen
 Luca Barbato
 Luka Perkov
 M Farkas-Dyck (Strake)
 Mahesh Bodapati
+Masanori Ogino
 Michael Forney
+Mikhail Kremnyov
 Natanael Copa
 Nicholas J. Kain
 orc
 Pascal Cuoq
 Petr Hosek
+Petr Skocik
 Pierre Carrier
+Reini Urban
 Rich Felker
 Richard Pennington
+Samuel Holland
 Shiz
 sin
 Solar Designer
@@ -75,6 +91,7 @@ Timo Teräs
 Trutz Behn
 Valentin Ochs
 William Haddon
+William Pitcock
 
 Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed
 under terms compatible with the above MIT license:
@@ -115,10 +132,8 @@ licensed under following terms: "Permission to use, copy, modify,
 and/or distribute this code for any purpose with or without fee is
 hereby granted. There is no warranty."
 
-The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain. Several files (crt)
-were released into the public domain; others are licensed under the
-standard MIT license terms at the top of this file. See individual
-files for their copyright status.
+The x86_64 port was written by Nicholas J. Kain and is licensed under
+the standard MIT terms.
 
 The mips and microblaze ports were originally written by Richard
 Pennington for use in the ellcc project. The original code was adapted
@@ -140,15 +155,26 @@ can be found in the git version control history of the project. The
 omission of copyright and license comments in each file is in the
 interest of source tree size.
 
-All public header files (include/* and arch/*/bits/*) should be
-treated as Public Domain as they intentionally contain no content
-which can be covered by copyright. Some source modules may fall in
-this category as well. If you believe that a file is so trivial that
-it should be in the Public Domain, please contact the authors and
-request an explicit statement releasing it from copyright.
+In addition, permission is hereby granted for all public header files
+(include/* and arch/*/bits/*) and crt files intended to be linked into
+applications (crt/*, ldso/dlstart.c, and arch/*/crt_arch.h) to omit
+the copyright notice and permission notice otherwise required by the
+license, and to use these files without any requirement of
+attribution. These files include substantial contributions from:
 
-The following files are trivial, believed not to be copyrightable in
-the first place, and hereby explicitly released to the Public Domain:
+Bobby Bingham
+John Spencer
+Nicholas J. Kain
+Rich Felker
+Richard Pennington
+Stefan Kristiansson
+Szabolcs Nagy
+
+all of whom have explicitly granted such permission.
 
-All public headers: include/*, arch/*/bits/*
-Startup files: crt/*
+This file previously contained text expressing a belief that most of
+the files covered by the above exception were sufficiently trivial not
+to be subject to copyright, resulting in confusion over whether it
+negated the permissions granted in the license. In the spirit of
+permissive licensing, and of not having licensing issues being an
+obstacle to adoption, that text has been removed.