On Mon, 11 May 2009 08:57:50 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Thufir Hawat <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:52:41 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> They would clearly like not to have copyright apply to this situation, >>> since then they would not need the GPL to provide its copyleft >>> mechanism there. >> >> Without copyright the GPL is pointless. > > Without an attack, a defense is pointless.
Nope. The GPL rests upon the existence of copyright law, ie: without copyright law there can be no GPL. A burglar alarm is a defense without an attack, it's a precaution. Or, would you say that a burglar alarm is pointless because no burglar is lurking about? Or, a password on computer? etc, etc. -Thufir _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
