On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Alessandro Vesely <ves...@tana.it> wrote: > There are salient discrepancies in copylefting collective work —as there are > mismatches in working as a free software developer in a western economic > model. >
There are salient discrepancies in every licensing model, so-called free/libre, free/open, free-as-in-beer, sell-your-first-child-shrinkwrap, etc. Shoot, the entire concept of property is still not worked out well. It only works if we agree to cooperate. And people and companies who receive excess and refuse to return it to the market simply are not cooperating, irregardless of either license or external economic system. (Excess includes not only money and less tangible proxies for value, but also control, which is one place where communism and socialism historically fail.) The whole idea that they have to protect themselves from users of their so-called intellectual property is where we, as a society are failing to do the reality check. > Let me just say that this discussion, working out the legal details of the > problem, is very interesting. I guess that's how every inch of freedom has to > be conquered, and I'm delighted that this list allows me to witness it. I think you meant "fought for" and not "conquered"? > Please go ahead. > > On Sat 15/Jul/2017 19:24:56 +0200 Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: >> [...] >> Finally, this is probably a good moment -- since this thread has erupted on >> a Debian Mailing List -- to let everyone know that Conservancy also >> organizes a GPL copyright aggregation project for Debian contributors as >> well, see: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#debian and >> https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/aug/17/debian/. Crowd-funding without the middleman! > [...] -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast. http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
