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Copyleft is a defensive measure in a hostile environment. If there were no copy laws at all then they wouldn't argue for them.
by pharmakom 4y ago
Copyleft is a defensive measure in a hostile environment. If there were no copy laws at all then they wouldn't argue for them.
- kube-system 4y agoI think you're painting with quite a broad brush. There are absolutely people who support copyleft because they do not want 'intermediaries' to be able to distribute binaries alone. e.g. GNU.
- abigail95 4y agoIf copyleft means restricting freedoms on what you can do with software and preserving those rights on derivative works (GPL) - then 100% no, those people need copyright laws to enforce that. With no copyright law I could take any GPL software, modify it, sell it as my own and nobody could force me to give up the code. If copyleft means permissive (MIT) - then it's not a hostile environment. You are free to create and share permissive works with no hostility from anyone else.