The fact that it can be freely copied isn't going to 'save' Linux. Looking on the title page to my copy of 'J.V. Stalin- Works Volume 7, 1925' I don't see a copyright there either. Just 'Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954'. No copyright.
It doesn't matter that there isn't a copyright notice. The requirement of copyright notice is specific to USA before 1980 or something. If the work comes from another country their rules apply to you because of international conventions.
Except if Soviet Union had the same unusual condition for copyright protection, which I don't know.
Take Debian. It's mass market, but not mass market sale.
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That is a flawed statement, because there was no way to easily copy these works when they were created (with the possible exception of Van Gogh who did suffer problems with copy cats and poorly made copies).
Copying music notes makes a much better copy than ripping a CD to MP3.
On the other hand, this reasoning is itself kind of patronizing since it supposes that "they" want certain things, because "they're like that", "they're ordinary people and ordinary people like stupid things".
Since the license says that you can charge "charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution", if the license said what you say, it could in theory result in the author getting 50,000 orders for the sum of CD + postage.
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The fact that it can be freely copied isn't going to 'save' Linux. Looking on the title page to my copy of 'J.V. Stalin- Works Volume 7, 1925' I don't see a copyright there either. Just 'Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954'. No copyright.
It doesn't matter that there isn't a copyright notice. The requirement of copyright notice is specific to USA before 1980 or something. If the work comes from another country their rules apply to you because of international conventions.
Except if Soviet Union had the same unusual condition for copyright protection, which I don't know.
Why do you want to have mass market sale?
Take Debian. It's mass market, but not mass market sale.
That is a flawed statement, because there was no way to easily copy these works when they were created (with the possible exception of Van Gogh who did suffer problems with copy cats and poorly made copies).
Copying music notes makes a much better copy than ripping a CD to MP3.
On the other hand, this reasoning is itself kind of patronizing since it supposes that "they" want certain things, because "they're like that", "they're ordinary people and ordinary people like stupid things".
Since the license says that you can charge "charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution", if the license said what you say, it could in theory result in the author getting 50,000 orders for the sum of CD + postage.