Free Software is 100% against copyright law. Copyleft is a hack which uses copyright to effectively disable itself. It's necessary because of the viral nature o

Free Software is 100% against copyright law. Copyleft is a hack which uses copyright to effectively disable itself. It's necessary because of the viral nature of copyright. If we could just switch off copyright for software then copyleft, the GPL etc would be laid to rest, their job done. Copyleft is a pragmatic solution in a world where copyright does exist.