Mo McRoberts wrote:
We covered this already. The effect of the GPL cannot be achieved
_without_ copyright.
Any ends can be achieved through primary legislation that can be
achieved through copyright as copyright is primary legislation.
We can create a GPL like environment without having to use copyright.
Some people (e.g. Linus of Linux fame) take exception to some of the
clauses in GPL v3 and see them as unnecessary.
Copyright has huge costs for society, we keep the good and loose the bad
(monopoly control etc).
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