Enforcing the GPL with Judo moves

Posted by mbaehrlxer on Mar 21, 2012 8:43 PM EDT
Heise; By Richard Hillesley
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"In judo, the goal is to use the momentum of the person attacking you to defend yourself, and that is exactly what copyleft does" The intent of free software is to render the code that runs the machines that run our lives transparent. In the words of Lawrence Lessig, free software is "free in the sense that the control coders build be transparent to all, and that anyone have the right to take that control, and modify it as he or she sees fit."

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