Sean DALY wrote:
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Talk to anyone in legal at Red Hat or
Novell, or Canonical, they will tell you how much they rely on
state-sponsored monopoly schemes such as copyright, patents,
trademarks, and trade secrets.
I attended the third international GPLv3 draft conference
(http://fsfe.org/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference.en.html) and
taped all the sessions, and I can assure you that the basis of the
license is in copyright law. Watch the Eben Moglen vid if you have the
time.
Only because they have top operate in a environment where copyright
exists. We can loose the bad (monopoly control) and keep the good (must
supply source code), through new primary legislation.
-
Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please
visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
