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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Thank you very much for contributing to jOOQ.
 jOOQ is dual-licensed Open Source software. While the version published here on GitHub is [ASL 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) licensed, we also ship jOOQ under a commercial license to those customers who want to use jOOQ with commercial databases. For more information about commercial licensing, please refer to this website:
 [http://www.jooq.org/legal/licensing](http://www.jooq.org/legal/licensing)
 
-Our dual-licensing means that we need you to tranfer all rights to your contribution to us, [Data Geekery GmbH](http://www.datageekery.com), in order to be able to re-license your contribution also to our commercial customers, if your contribution consists in any of the following:
+Our dual-licensing means that we need you to transfer all rights to your contribution to us, [Data Geekery GmbH](http://www.datageekery.com), in order to be able to re-license your contribution also to our commercial customers, if your contribution consists in any of the following:
 
 - Source code to be embedded into jOOQ deliverables
 - Source code to be embedded into jOOQ integration tests