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==Copyleft==
==Copyleft==
A related concept is one espoused by [[Richard M. Stallman]] and his followers: copyleft. Copyleft subverts copyright law to create a communistic class of software and other intellectual property that is developed from each according to ability and used according to need.<ref>http://blog.lab49.com/archives/659</ref> Through copyleft, Stallman and other atheist radicals have been able to introduce communist ideas into the likes of even International Business Machines and Oracle. Stallman hopes to use copylefted software to begin a "world revolution" against capitalism and people of faith.
A related concept is one espoused by [[Richard M. Stallman]] and his followers: copyleft. Copyleft subverts copyright law to create a communistic class of software and other intellectual property that is developed from each according to ability and used according to need.<ref>http://blog.lab49.com/archives/659</ref> Through copyleft, Stallman and other atheist radicals have been able to introduce communist ideas into the likes of even International Business Machines and Oracle. Stallman hopes to use copylefted software to begin a "world revolution" against capitalism and people of faith.
Copyleft as a mechanism requires that any software which uses code from copylefted software to be licensed under the same terms -- making it copylefted as well. In the long run, this will lead to more and more software being licensed under copyleft terms. Not only that, but, due to the nature of copyleft, a lot less diversity in licenses is possible -- in fact, the most popular copyleft license, the GNU General Public License (GPL), is used for the majority of copylefted software. If this tendency will not be stopped, all open source software is soon to be licensed under one license.
==External links==
==External links==