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When the free software movement started to make headway, proprietary software companies like Microsoft went to war against it, describing the licenses at its core (like the #GPL) as "viral licenses" to scare companies off from using free software.
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The GPL is a software license that coders add to their work that says, "You can do anything with this - change it, sell it, copy it, incorporate it into something else, BUT...you have to redistribute the new projects under the same terms."
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In other words, we are making a software commons - code that anyone can use and improve, but only if they agree to maintain the commons. Like any shared resource, commons need protection from freeloaders who take but do not replenish.
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