See my reply to DylanXXXXXX immediately adjacent. I'm not making up my own definitions. I'm contrasting Garrett Hardin's use of the term in his famous book "Tr

See my reply to DylanXXXXXX immediately adjacent. I'm not making up my own definitions. I'm contrasting Garrett Hardin's use of the term in his famous book "Tragedy of the Commons", which is the way most people on HN use it with Elinor Ostrom's much more enlightened definition of it in her refutations of Hardin's claims (refutations that Hardin has accepted). In Ostrom's sense, yes, GPL'ed code comprises a commons. In Hardin's sense, it does not (or at least, it has a bunch of features to it that render his entire thesis about commons inapplicable).