• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    You can’t do whatever you want with open source either. One big stipulation of copyleft licenses is the share-alike clause, which means you can’t make modifications and then decide your program is now closed-source, so it protects the code from being enclosed again.

    I mean yes you can make whatever modifications you want, generally, but it’s not totally unrestricted.

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      4 hours ago

      Im honestly a really big fan of copyleft. I think that it seems more “fair” in a system that requires sacrifice to make progress.