Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

[Aaron Wolf]

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Nobody was forgetting that copyleft is a hack of copyright law.

Abolish copyright, prohibit DRM, mandate source release. With that
combo, there is no need for copyright law. Copyleft is a means to an
end. The end is software freedom. If we can achieve software freedom
without that hack, great. It would be the greatest ideal if copyleft
indeed disappears because it is no longer needed. Without prohibition
of DRM and without mandatory source-release for published software, we
still need copyleft.

On 03/08/2015 01:33 PM, rysiek wrote:
> Dnia niedziela, 8 marca 2015 10:29:33 Will Hill pisze:
>> Copyright is a obsolete restriction that software owners have
>> stretched enormously to control computers and their users.
> 
> Now we must not forget that there would be no copyleft without
> copyright. It's easy to disavow copyright completely, but it would
> be counter-productive as far as copyleft is concerned, because...
> 
>> Copyleft removes those restrictions from users by granting them
>> the four software freedoms.
> 
> ...because copyleft does *much more* than remove the restrictions.
> It actively works *against* those restrictions, hacks the copyright
> system to grant the users *more freedoms* than what they would have
> in a world without copyright (and copyleft).
> 
> Let's not forget that.
> 
>> It is not a restriction on people, it is a restriction on
>> publishers who would deny people their software freedom.  The
>> "downside" of that is equivalent to the downsides of laws against
>> slavery.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
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