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Abolishing copyright will remove copyleft as well. Careful what you wish for; it might just become a pre free software world with all source carefully locked aw
by pmlnr 5y ago
Abolishing copyright will remove copyleft as well. Careful what you wish for; it might just become a pre free software world with all source carefully locked away from the public eye.
- Black101 5y agoIf copyright cease to exist, of course open source licenses won't be based on it... They probably will be a bit (or a lot) simpler. Someone should make a movie about a world without copyright.
- breck 5y ago?? We don’t need copyleft in a world without copyright.
- joepie91_ 5y agoI think they're referring to the idea of companies jealously guarding access to any and all source code because copyright doesn't protect them anymore, while FOSS authors have no protections. I don't think that that's a realistic fear, though; this is basically already how it works with FOSS code being used in remotely-hosted SaaS systems and there being no effective legal recourse for FOSS authors. It just doesn't officially say it yet in a law.
- theamk 5y agoWell, for one, I am going to miss all those GPL kernel releases for various hardware devices. You will be able to forget about any sort of custom cell phone ROMs.