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(...) \[O\]ne day in 1984 Stallman
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received by mail a programming manual that had been borrowed
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by American hacker and computer artist Don Hopkins. On the envelope
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a stickers reading “Copyleft (L)” was used to seal the small package.
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Hopkins had bought a pack of stickers at a science fiction convention, where
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hackers, including Stallman, often gathered and where it was common
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for them to organise and share rooms, notably for “@” parties in which
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people with email addresses could meet each other. 14 According to Hopkins,
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at that time the term copyleft was not part of the hacker culture, and
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the stickers had been purchased in the dealer’s room of one convention
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with other comics, political, and satirical stickers and buttons. 15 Knowing
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Stallman’s appreciation for such things, Hopkins had decorated the letter
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in a similar spirit. Little did he know that eventually the sticker and the
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pseudo-copyright statement he had written as a joke (Figure 5.2), would
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inspire Stallman to use the word copyleft to describe the properties of the
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GPL. 16 This is how copyleft, the symbol of rebellious cultural practices,
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ended up being claimed as a term to describe a particular mechanism of
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free software licensing.
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</blockquote>
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Aymeric Mansoux, Sandbox Culture (2017) - p. 211-212
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