On 09-Feb-2008, Reinhard Mueller 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.
Without copyright, there's no copyright law preventing anyone who gets their hands on the source code — like, say, someone working with the entity that would otherwise be the copyright holder — from distributing that source code to whomever pays them. -- \ "Don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you | `\ free with my breakfast cereal." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox, _The | _o__) Restaurant At The End Of The Universe_, Douglas Adams | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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