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@@ -3146,7 +3146,8 @@ has always allowed relicensing under the ordinary GPL\@.
 
 A challenge that faced the Free Software community heavily through out the
 early 2000s was the proliferation of incompatible Free Software licenses.  Of
-course, we cannot make the GPL compatible with all such licenses. GPLv3
+course, the GPL cannot possibly be compatible with all such licenses.
+However, GPLv3
 contains provisions that are designed to reduce license incompatibility by
 making it easier for developers to combine code carrying non-GPL terms with
 GPL'd code.