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@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ of legal issues to consider, the more mundane ways to create a new work
 covered by GPL are much more common.  For example, copyright statutes
 generally require permission from the copyright holder to grant explicit
 permission to modify a work in any manner.  As discussed in the next chapter,
-the GPL {\em does} grants such permission, but requires the modify work must
+the GPL {\em does} grants such permission, but requires the modified work must
 also be licensed under the terms of the GPL (and only GPL:
 see\S~\label{GPLv2s6} in this tutorial).  Determining whether software was
 modified is a substantially easier analysis than the derivative work
