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 # Go modules internals
 
 The internals of Go modules, extracted from [golang/go](https://github.com/golang/go). All
-occurrences of `internal` in import paths have been rewritten to `_internal_`,
-but the code is otherwise unchanged.
+occurrences of `internal` in import paths have been rewritten to `_internal_`, which makes
+these packages importable, but everything is otherwise unchanged.
 
 ## Re-extracting