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		zanny on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Kill... The GPL is hijacking IP to create a consumer right to repair that should exist but doesn't. Total IP abolition in combination with a strongly enshrined right to repair, which would necessitate access to source code of binaries given, would be perfectly in the spirit of the free software movement.

takeda on May 23, 2019 [–]

I would add that it RMS would actually prefer that over current GPL. GPL was created as a response to current IP laws trying to use it against itself.

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