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I wrote an essay criticizing the "four freedoms" approach to intellectual property, and discuss software licenses in the context of what I call "Red-Hat-ification". I offer an alternative approach on which what makes a free software license "free" is that it attempts to place the work in a […]

Oct 25, 2024, 9:01 PM

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