Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

2012-08-17 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Russ Nelson asked: Larry, have you ever been driving over a bridge that collapsed? Not that I can recall. :-) Out of fear of that very result, though, I support increased infrastructure spending by our government. But I don't stress out every time I drive over a bridge or when I use open source

Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Tilly
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote: Russ Nelson asked: Larry, have you ever been driving over a bridge that collapsed? Not that I can recall. :-) Out of fear of that very result, though, I support increased infrastructure spending by our government.

Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

2012-08-17 Thread Lawrence Rosen
[This email best viewed in HTML format] Hi Ben, It would be difficult for Linus Torvalds to complain about porn when he intentionally released an operating system that is so ideally suited for the delivery of porn. It would be like Michelangelo complaining because derivatives of his statue

Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

2012-08-17 Thread Russ Nelson
And yet we know that bridges collapse. Is it reasonable to take steps against bridges collapsing? We (mostly) don't build bridges out of wood (software from moral rights countries), but instead out of steel and concrete (countries where people cannot retroactively change the license on open source

Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: And yet we know that bridges collapse. Is it reasonable to take steps against bridges collapsing? We (mostly) don't build bridges out of wood (software from moral rights countries), but instead out of steel and concrete