Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tell me to respect the wishes of the author, and I'm all with you, > even if these wishes seem - at first sight - rather outlandish. But > this lunatic fight to get the scope of copyright extended, by > exactly those people who originally wanted to abolish all forms of > copyright, is one of the saddest quixotic battles I know of.
You don't get it. The FSF is not fighting for the laws that give the GPL teeth. But while this insanity prevails, nothing is gained by pretending it isn't. If you want no defense against people unilaterally taking your work and turning it as proprietary as the laws allow, use the BSD licences. The explicit and expressed purpose of the GPL is to make the code it covers not be subvertible in this manner. People that are clamoring against the consequences of the GPL are clamoring against the consequences of copyright laws. Lobby for weakening the copyright laws, and the GPL will lose its teeth along with the other licences. I'd certainly welcome a world where "derivative work" lawsuits were not, in court, repeatedly and decidedly enforced even for trivial cases akin to linking. But the ongoing practice does not support Alexander's fantasies. And as long as it doesn't, nothing is gained by pretenting that the GPL should in some manner have less validity than other licences. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
