diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex
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--- a/gpl-lgpl.tex
+++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex
@@ -2461,7 +2461,7 @@ Given this ``two GPLs world'' is reality, it makes sense to consider GPLv3 in
 terms of how it differs from GPLv2.  Also, most of the best GPL experts in
 the world must deal regularly with both licenses, and admittedly have decades
 of experience with GPLv2 while the most experience with GPLv3 that's possible
-is by default less than a decade.  These two factors usually cause even new
+is by definition less than a decade.  These two factors usually cause even new
 students of GPL to start with GPLv2 and move on to GPLv3, and this tutorial
 follows that pattern.
 
