Sept 3, 2003 Free Software Licensing in Context Jefferson's position
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of thinking power called an idea, ... He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. -Thomas Jefferson

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