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   - copyright information
   - ... and more TBD in the future
 - gathering license declarations into artifacts to ship with code
-- applying organization specific compliance constriants against the
+- applying organization specific compliance constraints against the
   set of packages used by a target.
 - producing SBOMs for built artifacts.