2009/1/13 Tor at Shared Genius <[email protected]>

> Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2009/1/13 Eus <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>>
>>
>>    Hi Ho!
>>
>>    --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Quiliro Ordóñez <[email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    >  No it is not. Once software is free under a free license,
>>    > whoever got it
>>    > alwasys will have that part as free software. Whoever got
>>    > it as nonfree
>>    > without copyright would be able to at least execute and
>>    > reverse engineer.
>>    > Much better than before.....don't you think.
>>
>>    No, I don't think so. Reverse-engineering is much more difficult
>>    than just compiling the source code.
>>
>>
>> I agree on that. You still don't have the code when you have copyright.
>> There is no advantage for us to have copyright. It's a disadvantage. If we
>> elimintate copyright, at least we will advance one step forward.
>>
> Which is exactly why we need copyright, but /only/ until we have other
> means of keeping software free.  Near as I can tell, the GPL and enforcement
> of it is the most significant reasons we are able to maintain software
> freedom once it is attained.  If there is no copyright anyone will be able
> to take a free program, make some changes, (perhaps only breaking changes,
> if it is a big company,) and release it binary only.


That is a good point. We should analyse ways to make a stronger way to solve
this problem.

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