Reposting because it was removed from another comm earlier for the political content.

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      6 days ago

      I thought “wait, how does the awesome Pickard Maneuver not already know that?”

      But then I remembered instead to say

      Congratulations!
      You are one of today’s lucky 1000.

      I say 1000 rather than 10000 because I estimate only about 1/10 of the people I know know what copyleft is. Then again, I don’t wasn’t to assume you’re American randomly.

      • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I’m very surprised too. I’m on Lemmy a lot. I’ve been using Linux full-time for nearly a year now and learning about open source projects. Somehow that term has just slipped under my awareness until now.

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          6 days ago

          Thinking about it, I came across the terminology when I was deciding what licence to use for a side project I was coding, and it was on the webpages telling me about various licences folks use for open source projects.

          So I’ve only learned this term from looking at licensing from the other side of the table, so to speak, so I suspect that most people who aren’t programmers wouldn’t come across it because it’s not even included in the text of most licences. It’s a unifying concept, rather than a contract term.

          It’s always nice when I’m about to install some software and it says the name of a copyleft licence in aware of. When it says GPLv3 as the title, for example, I stop reading and say we’re good to go.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      8 days ago

      The guy who first described the concept of FOSS is the same guy who popularized “copyleft”. Although by his own admission he wasn’t the one who first thought of the pun.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      On one hand, glad you like it and congrats on being part of today’s lucky 10,000.

      On the other hand, I’m a bit dismayed that the concept remains so obscure that even somebody extensively on Lemmy hadn’t heard of it. It’s a fight for freedom and your comment shows we’re losing harder than I realized.