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> free software wants to strengthen copyright. I would have thought that most were against IP in general That's a misunderstanding. In a world without any con
by goodpoint 4y ago
> free software wants to strengthen copyright. I would have thought that most were against IP in general
That's a misunderstanding.
In a world without any concept of authorship and copyright, people would share, modify and redistribute books, drawing, musical scores...
But most software can be compiled (and even obfuscated), making it unpractical to further modify and redistribute a copy.
This means than in such word closed source would be still present. And freeload from FOSS without even giving attribution.
FOSS is about building a cooperative development model.
Copyleft is based on copyright laws simply because there's no other legal instrument to ensure that software remains open.
- dento 4y ago> But most software can be compiled (and even obfuscated), making it unpractical to further modify and redistribute a copy. Tell that to people who remove DRM restrictions, fix bugs and then distribute the result. The only reason there aren't companies and university courses dedicated for such modifications is that it's illegal.
- goodpoint 4y agoWhat part of "unpractical" did you not understand? You expect a FOSS ecosystem to flourish with people sharing only patched binaries?