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@@ -309,7 +309,12 @@ To add a license to your repository, navigate to the repository on GitHub.com, s
 
 *The Department of Commerce addendum for works created in their entiredly by U.S. Government employees*
 
-The license addendum makes explicit that the Department of Commerce is waiving its right to seek copyright outside of the U.S. because 17 U.S.C. §105 only applies to copyright within the U.S. If the repository is code or a code package, include the software addendum within a `LICENSE` file at the root of the repository. For data or content, include the content addendum. The addendum should also be added to the repository `README.md`. What if the content has non-federal co-authors? You can add another more text to the addendum if they need to waive copyright explicitly also. 
+The license addendum makes explicit that the Department of Commerce is waiving its right to seek copyright outside
+of the U.S. because 17 U.S.C. §105 only applies to copyright within the U.S. If the repository is code or a code
+package, include the software addendum within a `LICENSE` file at the root of the repository. For data or content,
+include the content addendum. The addendum should also be added to the repository `README.md`. What if the content
+has non-federal co-authors? You can add another more text to the addendum if they need to waive copyright explicitly
+also. 
 
 For software, here is the content of `LICENSE`:
 
@@ -321,7 +326,11 @@ LICENSE version 3](https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-
 
 In addition this software has the following license addendum:
 
-Software code created by U.S. Government employees is not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105). The United States/Department of Commerce reserves all rights to seek and obtain copyright protection in countries other than the United States for Software authored in its entirety by the Department of Commerce. To this end, the Department of Commerce hereby grants to Recipient a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use, copy, and create derivative works of the Software outside of the United States.
+Software code created by U.S. Government employees is not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105).
+The United States/Department of Commerce reserves all rights to seek and obtain copyright protection in countries
+other than the United States for Software authored in its entirety by the Department of Commerce. To this end, the
+Department of Commerce hereby grants to Recipient a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use, copy, and create
+derivative works of the Software outside of the United States.
 ```
 
 For content, here is the content of `LICENSE`:
@@ -333,7 +342,11 @@ The content in this repository as a whole is distributed under [Creative Commons
 
 In addition this content has the following license addendum:
 
-Works created by U.S. Government employees is not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105). The United States/Department of Commerce reserves all rights to seek and obtain copyright protection in countries other than the United States for works authored in its entirety by the Department of Commerce. To this end, the Department of Commerce hereby grants to Recipient a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use, copy, and create derivative works of the content in this repository outside of the United States.
+Works created by U.S. Government employees is not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105).
+The United States/Department of Commerce reserves all rights to seek and obtain copyright protection in countries
+other than the United States for works authored in its entirety by the Department of Commerce. To this end, the
+Department of Commerce hereby grants to Recipient a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use, copy, and create
+derivative works of the content in this repository outside of the United States.
 ```
 
 Including the license and addendum in this way will ensure that GitHub displays the license in the repository information and that the open source license is retained with the addendum in case the `License.md` file is removed.