From df56f83b99caa5ddd42e36523673968a0cf81458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnav Bhatt Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 00:20:06 +0530 Subject: copyleft sucks --- articles/copyleft-the-god-that-failed.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 articles/copyleft-the-god-that-failed.md (limited to 'articles') diff --git a/articles/copyleft-the-god-that-failed.md b/articles/copyleft-the-god-that-failed.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5c4a81 --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/copyleft-the-god-that-failed.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Copyleft: The God That Failed + +Copyleft is a failing idea of protecting your material against proprietization by relying on the same authority which granted monopoly to the corporations through copyright while also being a fallacy of it "not being a copyright" while still being a form of copyright. + +### The Concept +Copyleft is a method for making a work free (in the sense of freedom, not in terms of price), and requiring all modified and extended versions of that work to be free as well. Basically, your work (such as a software) being released with a "copyleft license" grants others to study, re-use, re-purpose and re-release your work as long as they also redistribute their own version of your work. It gives more freedom than a proprietary license however grants less freedom than releasing your license on public domain or even with a permissive license. + +### The Appeal -- cgit v1.2.3