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@@ -1967,10 +1967,10 @@ 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