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>It always troubled me that there was so much vitriol for Maisel from the exact same community of people who rightly insist that free software licences are enfo
by catern 5y ago
>It always troubled me that there was so much vitriol for Maisel from the exact same community of people who rightly insist that free software licences are enforceable and that non-compliance should be shamed.
That community is generally opposed to copyright and intellectual property altogether. Copyleft is just a hack to create a space where it doesn't exist. If I could "infringe" on others without being punished, there would be no need for copyleft enforcement. That's the idea, anyway.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoMaybe, but they understand the difference between their principles/licences and the public domain. So does Jay Maisel -- his income depended on it. And at any rate there is almost no place in the copyleft world for photographers like Maisel to earn a living at all, so he'd be within his rights to reject it entirely.