Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

[Will Hill]

Copyright is a obsolete restriction that software owners have stretched 
enormously to control computers and their users.  

Copyleft removes those restrictions from users by granting them the four 
software freedoms.  It is not a restriction on people, it is a restriction on 
publishers who would deny people their software freedom.  The "downside" of 
that is equivalent to the downsides of laws against slavery.  

On Saturday 07 March 2015, Mark Holmquist wrote:
> My point was merely to bring some awareness to the table, because while
> I'm certainly happy that we seem to agree that copyleft is a good thing,
> we cannot ever lose sight of *what it is*, and part of what it is is a
> restriction on certain activities.