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[-] doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It’s a mat with conclusions on it and you can jump on them, it’s a jump to conclusions mat!

The digital commons is protected by making sure changes to it and work that builds upon it remain in the commons, not by letting everyone go hog wild because copying only costs the amortized price of access, storage and electricity.

Gpl does that by requiring that things that use it also become gpl.

I’m really surprised to be explaining this. Some guy wrote a book that has a good overview of all this stuff but in the context of sampling almost 30 years ago, I’ll chase it down when I get near that shelf.

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