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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