2009/1/13 Tor at Shared Genius <[email protected]> > Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > >> >> >> 2009/1/13 Eus <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>> >> >> Hi Ho! >> >> --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Quiliro Ordóñez <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> > No it is not. Once software is free under a free license, >> > whoever got it >> > alwasys will have that part as free software. Whoever got >> > it as nonfree >> > without copyright would be able to at least execute and >> > reverse engineer. >> > Much better than before.....don't you think. >> >> No, I don't think so. Reverse-engineering is much more difficult >> than just compiling the source code. >> >> >> I agree on that. You still don't have the code when you have copyright. >> There is no advantage for us to have copyright. It's a disadvantage. If we >> elimintate copyright, at least we will advance one step forward. >> > Which is exactly why we need copyright, but /only/ until we have other > means of keeping software free. Near as I can tell, the GPL and enforcement > of it is the most significant reasons we are able to maintain software > freedom once it is attained. If there is no copyright anyone will be able > to take a free program, make some changes, (perhaps only breaking changes, > if it is a big company,) and release it binary only.
That is a good point. We should analyse ways to make a stronger way to solve this problem. -- Saludos/Greetings Quiliro Ordóñez 593(02)340 1517 / 593(09)821 8696 http://quiliro.wordpress.com Artículos recientes: - Por que aceptar derechos de autor y patentes si no tenemos ninguna?
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