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Latest revision as of 13:39, 13 October 2010
Key article by Karl Fogel to understand how the General Public License uses Copyright
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"The basic argument of copyright abolitionists is that people should be free to share when sharing does not result in any diminution of supply. The GPL simply uses copyright law in a jiujitsu-like manner to enforce this principle, in a legal environment where sharing is prohibited by default and must be explicitly permitted to be legal. All the GPL does is create a space where permission to share is enforced." (http://questioncopyright.org/copyright_and_open_source)