On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Zico <mailz...@gmail.com> wrote: > [ ... ] > Just wanna know, how come copyrighted piece of code follows GNU license?
You're right in a sense: the GNU project opposed copyright in principle. However, copyright law is so widespread and ingrained into society that Richard Stallman, the founder of GNU, decided to attack it from within. So the GNU General Public Licence (the GPL) is effectively a way of subverting copyright while following the rules of copyright and hence, as someone pointed out, "copyleft". The end objective is eradication of copyright in any case... when that happens, the GPL will be redundant. Until then, it (or any of the other FOSS licences) can be used in conjunction with copyright law to reverse the effects of copyright. Regards, -- Raju _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
