"...I started Remixtures in the beginning of October 2006, a few months after I finished my master’s thesis about online activism and the (re)appropriation of technology for social goals. One of the issues that I wrote about in there was the impact of the free software movement in the society as a whole, as best exemplified by the free operating system Gnu/Linux [...] In my thesis, I argue that the Creative Commons licenses are trying to apply to cultural production some of the freedoms that the GPL license created by Richard Stallman grants to free software users and developers..."