>Sure, the source code sometimes wouldn't be available, but there would be nothing legally preventing decompilation. This is true but generally unhelpful. The

>Sure, the source code sometimes wouldn't be available, but there would be nothing legally preventing decompilation. This is true but generally unhelpful. The result of decompilation often isn't nearly as readable as the original source, and at the very least you've lost all documentation. A world without copyright would look much closer to one with entirely permissively licensed software than one with entirely copyleft software.