“The piece contains flaws in both its reasoning and its
rhetoric, and deserves a rebuttal, in part because it reached such
a wide audience.“The piece’s most obvious problem is its conflation of copyright
with ‘creditright.’ For example, here’s how Bulmash asks us to
imagine what would happen if the GPL (a copyright license that
allows derivative works, but only if they are also under the GPL)
were unenforceable…”
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