"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Without copyright law the GPL would be unenforceable. > It would also be unnecessary" > > Such claims are not really true, without copyright law we would not > have any means to protect the rights of users. Copyright is a double > edged sword. Only with laws that explicitly ban non-free software > would the GPL become unnecessary.
Not being able to enforce non-freedom by the way of the law would be quite a big step forward. Of course, this would leave technical measures. The easiest being omitting the source code... I consider it likely that the overall benefits would be worth losing both restrictions and protection possible by copyright. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
