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by jsnathan 3191 days ago
The 'software' is what is provided by the original author(s), and the rest refers to the patents held on 'it'.

What you describe would be a 'derivative work', as mentioned in the second paragraph.

It might be clearer if it was capitalized like in the MIT license, but I think it's pretty clear as it is.