On 02/12/2016 09:24 AM, Tobias Platen wrote: > > Copyleft requires that the exact license text is passed to all readers > and users. One can still modify the GPL, but that modified licence needs > a different name, as it is not the original work. Even if the GPL were > not copyrighted, as laws and other legal publications are, only the > version published by the Free Software Foundation is valid if properly > marked. I think copyright should be abolished and replaced with a legal > copyleft that protects software freedoms. The GPL would then be obsolete > (and in the public domain). >
In order to make the GPL obsolete we need the combination of *three* legal changes: 1. abolish patent and copyright law 2. prohibit DRM 3. mandate source release for all published works I regularly state that those three are precisely my personal wish. I think number 1 alone would be positive enough to be worthwhile, but I completely respect the concerns that we might have serious problems unless we get all three together.
