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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