Reinhard Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, den 09.02.2008, 12:53 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > > In other words, if copyright truly did not exist, and everyone had the > > same freedoms (and more) in every work, not just those that have such > > freedoms explicitly granted by the GPL, then there would no longer > > need to be a GPL. > > I don't think so. Without copyright, everybody still had the chance to > hide the source and only publish the binaries. Everybody still had the > chance to write software that only works on specific hardware, to write > software that checks BIOS serial numbers, or whatever.
As mentioned you could invent an other law that prohibits such actions. But to abolish copyright law you need to have a majority (at least in an ideal democracy that is not existing) and thus there has to be a change of consciousness. Eliminating copyright law only solves half of the problem: It makes factitious stringency impossible, but doesn't force the manufacturers to release their source code and allow modification and sharing of it. When everyone can copy a malicious proprietary software like Windows Vista without getting sued, it's still a bad system. > Thanks, > Reinhard Regards Matthias-Christian _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
