> "Without copyright law the GPL would be unenforceable. It > would also be unnecessary" > > Such claims are not really true, without copyright law we would > not have any means to protect the rights of users. Copyright is > a double edged sword. Only with laws that explicitly ban > non-free software would the GPL become unnecessary.
Not being able to enforce non-freedom by the way of the law would be quite a big step forward. Of course, this would leave technical measures. The easiest being omitting the source code... Or Treacherous Computing/Digital Restriction Managment, which is one of the nicest things the GPLv3 draft touches upon. I consider it likely that the overall benefits would be worth losing both restrictions and protection possible by copyright. While what you say is true, I wouldn't be willing to put my neck for it. I'd rather have a way to defend my freedom, then not having the means. Cheers. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
