"This is true even of many physical goods." No, this is not true with physical goods. I know of no physical good that has same properties as ideas. A comparison to a car is not appropriate. A car is a scarce resource.
"Even if the cost of making a copy is trivial, someone still needs to make the original first and that may not be trivial." Now this is a valid argument. It is the same as the one I said people always make - that without some sort of law, giving you monopoly over your product, you will not be able to create it. Call it motivation, enabler or whatever. I think that your example invalidates such a claim though. You did do complex, very complex code (as you yourself pointed out) without a monopoly on your work, which you eliminated by using a GPL license. If your argument is not about motivation at all, but about morality, that it is immoral to use someone else's labour without paying them, then this is a separate question altogether and it has little connection to copyright, actually. It can be discussed in general terms. --- Just to give you fellas a framework within which I work out copyright questions, do watch this video by Stephan Kinsella. The talk lasts for about 25 minutes, the rest is Q&A. If you listen carefully through all of it, you will see where I am standing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgLJkj6m0A -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/
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