Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Copyfree

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 26/02/16 03:50 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> On 26/02/16 21:21, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Copyright is also our only basis for shielding our software from 
>> being made proprietary through any of those methods.
>
> If you were being attacked, and you bludgeon your assailant, to stay
> them off you, you might argue that it was your only way of saving
> yourself. This doesn't mean that bludgeoning people is good.
> 

It doesn't mean that bludgeoning people / copyright is good. It does mean that
bludgeoning people / copyright isn't always wrong. It is, perhaps, morally
neutral, or maybe only prima facie wrong, but not intrinsically/always wrong.