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pessimizer | on: Quad9 to exit France
FOSS only "depends" on copyright laws in the sense that it is a hack to get around the existence of them (and now their children, anti-circumvention laws.)
dgellow | parent
No, it is a hack that uses copyright to force establishing a set of freedoms. Without copyright FLOSS cannot exist, by definition.