I've been suggesting for a long time that the ideal vision we should at
least have rhetorically (not practically) is the abolition of copyright
and patent laws combined with mandatory source-release for published
works and prohibition of DRM.
On 03/08/2015 10:55 AM, James Dabgotra wrote:
I think
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This is getting too off-topic, but the idea of giving an author
exclusive control over their work is one that needs to be justified
and not accepted blindly. Copyright is indeed an issue in basically
all cases. It hampers culture and progress and
Dnia niedziela, 8 marca 2015 10:29:33 Will Hill pisze:
Copyright is a obsolete restriction that software owners have stretched
enormously to control computers and their users.
Now we must not forget that there would be no copyleft without copyright. It's
easy to disavow copyright completely,
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Nobody was forgetting that copyleft is a hack of copyright law.
Abolish copyright, prohibit DRM, mandate source release. With that
combo, there is no need for copyright law. Copyleft is a means to an
end. The end is software freedom. If we can
I think what was being suggested is copyleft encourages developers to forgo
their right to put software under a proprietary license. But copyleft isn't
mandatory. Besides, that freedom to put it under that license is the freedom
to potentially exercise power over others. Vis-a-vis JS Mill, you
hellekin helle...@gnu.org writes:
On 03/08/15 14:58, Aaron Wolf wrote:
abolition of copyright
*** copyright is not the issue really: the abuse of copyright is.
author's lifetime
One day in a mail discuss with Cynbe ru Taren and someone else the
discussion finished that the license /
Yes, we should demand this level of transparency regarding widely
published / distributed items. We already require nutrition details and
ingredients on food. We don't require a recipe to be published, but I
think that would be fine to do so. It would apply only to a certain
level of distribution.
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Now, you could definitely say that copyleft is not a restriction on the
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