He did not create the concept of the copyleft. He branded it *as* copyleft, and made himself the front man for a bunch of folks that were already pushing the concepts. Copyleft-style licenses would have happened without RMS.
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Replying to @mwlauthor @sarahmei
Can you show me the copyleft licenses that happened before rms? I'd love to read them.
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Go dig in old Usenet discussions.
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Replying to @mwlauthor @sarahmei
Will I find a coypleft license there that was written before the GPL?
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You're asking about stuff I didn't care about, over 25-30 years ago. Go find out.
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love to read about a copyleft license from before GPL please
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go dig around usenet for the discussions
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k, if I don't find none I'll come here to storm you... if I find one I'll tell you too

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Still not found any...
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Hey guess what!? Haven't found any. And guess what, even at OSI's sites, which are everything about not pro stallman, nothing about copyleft being a previous invention than what gnu and fsf claims. And guess what, even Eric S Raymond, from osi too, and according to many...
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... some kind of archaeologist for the hacker culture, and according to the jargon file, nope, copyleft began existence with gpl. So sorry, you're wrong...
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