Anything that I write here, can be considered copyleft, as understood by the GNU Project. Feel free to modify, alter, steal and do anything else with what happens here, as long as what you do also remains copyleft. If someone feels like sharing my content on their blog, or in any other form for that matter, that seems like a good thing for me. My work is being spread to many more people than I could do myself. That’s a plus, as I see it.
And if someone wants to take my work and improve upon it, as people have been doing for centuries, I think that’s a wonderful thing. If they can take my favorite posts and make something funny or inspiring or thought-provoking or even sad … I say more power to them. The creative community only benefits from derivations and inspirations. [From here]
And why do I feel this is necessary? Allow me to express how I feel with someone else’s point:
“During the course of this long volume I have undoubtedly plagiarized from many sources–to use the ugly term that did not bother Shakespeare’s age. I doubt whether any criticism or cultural history has ever been written without such plagiary, which inevitably results from assimilating the contributions of your countless fellow-workers, past and present. The true function of scholarship as a society is not to stake out claims on which others must not trespass, but to provide a community of knowledge in which others may share.” -F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance 1941.