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   Tóth Gábor Baltazár (tthbaltazar@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 17:53:22 JST Tóth Gábor Baltazár

   I think free software is a political movement

   you're saying everyone should be able to use, analyze, learn from and contribute without restrictions

   that's a very strong policy that's in contrast with the rest of the world

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 17:53:15 JST SuperDicq

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     • (NekoSock) Miya Ironami

     @iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be @tthbaltazar@chaos.social I am very sure that the term copyleft does not refer to the political left.
     
     It is simply a humorous way to oppose copyright.

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     (NekoSock) Miya Ironami (iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 17:53:16 JST (NekoSock) Miya Ironami

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     @tthbaltazar@chaos.social actually I can't find the source for this claim anymore, I remember reading it but now I can't find it so I'm not sure ;-;

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     (NekoSock) Miya Ironami (iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 17:53:18 JST (NekoSock) Miya Ironami

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     @tthbaltazar@chaos.social it's both

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     Tóth Gábor Baltazár (tthbaltazar@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 17:53:19 JST Tóth Gábor Baltazár

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     • (NekoSock) Miya Ironami

     @iro_miya
     isn't it wordplay on copyright?

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     (NekoSock) Miya Ironami (iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 17:53:20 JST (NekoSock) Miya Ironami

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     @tthbaltazar@chaos.social it absolutely is, and the word "copyleft" originally referred to the political left

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 18:06:34 JST SuperDicq

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     @tthbaltazar@chaos.social I consider free software more of a social movement than a political movement. As free software does not belong to any one particular political ideology.
     
     It is more similar to other social movements like pacifism/anti-war. Almost everyone in the world from every political movement agrees that war is bad. Yet we still fight wars all over the world, because a minority of powerful people may gain from it...
     
     I see free software movement as a similar movement.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 21:09:55 JST 翠星石

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     • (NekoSock) Miya Ironami
     @iro_miya @tthbaltazar Copyleft came from Don Hopkins, who mailed rms a letter in 1984 or 1985, on which was written: "Copyleft – all rights reversed": https://www.gnu.org/graphics/copyleft-sticker.html