What is kind of special about Linux
is that
it kind of uses a judo trick
in copyright law
turning the copyright law kind of
against itself, in saying that,
sure, we own the copyright to this
but you get to copy it freely.
You can do whatever you want with it.
You can use it in any way,
you can change it in any way
The only thing that we require is that
when you change it, and you give it to
somebody else, you give that somebody else
the same rights
So when somebody else makes changes to
Linux, I don't ask him to assign the
copyright to me. So I actually don't have
any rights to a lot of the system
except the rights that other people are
willing to give me, which are the same
rights that I am willing to give other
people. So what you will find is that
nobody can control Linux.
I don't have anymore rights than you
have. If you wanted to,
you could buy a Linux CD, you could get
it over the internet,
you could make your own changes
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