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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-18 22:33:18
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Wordsmith and typo fixes.

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 most users, programmers, and lawyers alike tend to be more familiar with
 EULAs. EULAs are believed by their authors to be contracts, requiring
 formal agreement between the licensee and the software distributor to be
 valid. This has led to mechanisms like ``shrink-wrap'' and ``click-wrap''
 as mechanisms to perform acceptance ceremonies with EULAs.
 The GPL does not need contract law to ``transfer rights.''  No rights
 are transfered between parties. By contrast, the GPL is a permission
 The GPL does not need contract law to ``transfer rights.''  Usually, no rights
 are transfered between parties.  By contrast, the GPL is primarily a permission
 slip to undertake activities that would otherwise have been prohibited
-by copyright law. As such, it needs no acceptance ceremony; the
+by copyright law.  As such, GPL needs no acceptance ceremony; the
 licensee is not even required to accept the license.
 However, without the GPL, the activities of copying, modifying and
 distributing the software would have otherwise been prohibited.  So, the
 GPL says that you only accepted the license by undertaking activities that
 you would have otherwise been prohibited without your license under GPL\@.

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