Not enforcing copyright on non-free software leaves the problem of copyright for everything else (like cultural works and science and more). Copyright is fundamentally itself a problem. But I said I wouldn't get into that.
The issue is: non-free software isn't non-free merely because of the copyright terms. It's non-free also because the source is rarely available. In order to have software freedom, it's not enough to ignore / abolish copyright on non-free software. We must also assure that the source is available in the preferred form for modification. On 03/08/2015 12:01 PM, Will Hill wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to not enforce copyright on non free software? It's > evident that people don't need copyright to encourage them to write software > and non free software never practically enters the public domain. > > On Sunday 08 March 2015, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> I've been suggesting for a long time that the ideal vision we should at >> least have rhetorically (not practically) is the abolition of copyright >> and patent laws combined with mandatory source-release for published >> works and prohibition of DRM. > > >
