Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
Yavor Doganov informed me, that Richard Stallman published a new
version
of his article "Freedom or Copyright" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html. I await
your
cmments :)
Generally speaking I share Richard Stallman's opinion, but I'm not sure whether Copyright was a good idea. But you can't alter the past and now it's time to abolish such laws, because they inhibit a more effective production by factitious stringency and therefore allow everyone to take part in cultural development.
If copyright is abolished, then there's no more GPL. What about that?
br Carsten
PS: *I* should see if I can't get the time to translate this to Danish, then send it to various politicians when the translation hits the GNU web site - others could do the same for their ownlanguages :-)
Carsten Agger agger@c.dk wrote:
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
Yavor Doganov informed me, that Richard Stallman published a new
version
of his article "Freedom or Copyright" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html. I await
your
cmments :)
Generally speaking I share Richard Stallman's opinion, but I'm not sure whether Copyright was a good idea. But you can't alter the past and now it's time to abolish such laws, because they inhibit a more effective production by factitious stringency and therefore allow everyone to take part in cultural development.
If copyright is abolished, then there's no more GPL. What about that?
Well, the GNU GPL is a compromise it uses copyright law against its enemies, but the world would be a much better place if there wouldn't be an enemies. Nevertheless we talk about non-software in this case.
br Carsten
Regards Matthias-Christian