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