Villa: Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture

"I begin with the premise that when I make something -- software, music, a book, a table, an apple pie, anything -- I own that thing and all the rights entangled with it. No one has some kind of mystical right to use, borrow, copy, sell or eat what I make unless I say so."

And some of us start from the premise that if I wish to put the effort in to make a copy of something for my own use, or to give away, then that's my business, and the original creator has no kind of mystical right to tell me what I can and can't spend my time doing.