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@@ -566,8 +566,8 @@ available to subjugate users.  For example:
 
 \item Unfortunately, despite much effort by many in the software freedom
   community to end patents that read on software (i.e., patents on
-  computational ideas), they still ultimately exist.  As such, a software
-  program might otherwise be seemly unrestricted, but a patent might read on
+  computational ideas), they still exist.  As such, a software
+  program might otherwise seem to be unrestricted, but a patent might read on
   the software and ruin everything for its users.\footnote{See
   \S\S~\ref{gpl-implied-patent-grant},~\ref{GPLv2s7},~\ref{GPLv3s11} for more
   discussion on how the patent system interacts with copyleft, and read