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You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the baby-with-the-bathwater dept.

Reader gbulmash sends us to his essay on the fallacy of those who would abolish copyright. The argument is that without copyright granting an author the right to set licensing terms for his/her work, the GPL could not be enforced. The essay concludes that if you support the GPL or any open source license (other than public domain), your fight should be not about how to abolish copyright, but how to reform copyright.

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  1. Re:I've said it before by 644bd346996 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lurkers and trolls don't get mod points.

  2. Re:You can oppose copyright ... and support BSD by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thanks for demonstrating the point: Intelligence is GPL-incompatible.

  3. Re:GPL is not freedom. It is restriction. by rick_campbell · · Score: 0, Troll

    That assumes that a lack of copyright implies that all is published. There are other ways to keep things from being publicly available. Trade Secret law exists because it Trade Secrets are a better way to go for many.

    You can't disassemble the code that's running someone's service. If you can't get to at at all, it doesn't matter whether copyright exists.

    GPL may be good and it may be bad. It is certainly restriction, but RMS et al pretend that it's about freedom. If you're restricting things to help MY freedom, I ask you to stop. Real freedom is far better than the Restriction Through Freedom nonsense. GPL is 1984, War Is Peace, etc.

  4. Re:In a world without copyright... by iminplaya · · Score: 0, Troll

    (Score:0, Flamebait)

    There ya go! Send in the drones... to fight for what they think is theirs...even when it's not. Stamp out the rabble rouser and his demagoguery! "He is dangerous..."

    Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
    Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free.

    --
    What?