"But while copyleft liberated the source code, it failed to liberate all the users. The right to fix a bug or add a feature is a hollow freedom if you lack the elite, scarce knowledge required to speak the language of machines."

"The 'tyranny of the vendor' is finally meeting its match, not in a courtroom, but in the prompt."

https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/

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The second liberation: AI is the final frontier of Copyleft

Copyleft gave us the right to be free; AI gives us the power to be free. The scarcity of programming knowledge is evaporating, turning the "freedom to fork" from a legal theory into a functional reality for every user.

][ Stefano Maffulli