On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:01:12PM -0600, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Where do you think the rights come from in the first place?
Society (governments) decided to grant them to whomever. > The GPL, CCL, Berkley licence (pick your licence) .... all rely on one > thing: Copyright. > > And the power is in the author's hands to licence it whatever way > they want! I've heard this argument before, it misses a very important point. Those licences you mention only exist to try to give you the "rights" you would have had if there was no such thing as a copyright. If there were no copyright laws would we need the GPL, CCL, Berkley licence etc.? I think not. >> Of course. The point I believe Andy is making is that copyright law >> no longer servers readers or authors, but publishers. Raging against >> the machine is exactly the point; the machine is what's getting the >> power, not the people. > > I totally disagree ... copyright protects the author ... and it's the > underlying legal machinery that *makes* the GPL (and others) work! It's the underlying legal machinery that makes the GPL (and others) necessary. andrew -- Libra: (Sept. 23 - Oct. 23) You will have one of the worst days of your life next week. However, since it's one of several thousand worst days of your life, it's not all that significant.
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