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Go tell that to most "viral" copyleft licenses, as they rely on copyright to enforce the viral parts.
by AshamedCaptain 2y ago
Go tell that to most "viral" copyleft licenses, as they rely on copyright to enforce the viral parts.
- hn_acker 2y agoThat's fine. There's no need to expand copyright for the sake of preserving copyleft licenses (and in my fantasy world some country could explicitly leave copyright protection the same for free culture licenses while weakening copyright protection for proprietary licenses). If copyright gets weakened then the effective strengthening of the public domain (or fair use as well / instead in the US) will make up for the effective weakening of copyleft.
- AshamedCaptain 2y agoI really don't see that. What will happen is fights between those who have the most resources to commit to copy-protection schemes where users and developers will always lose. There will be zero free software (in either definition of the word "free") voluntarily published because it will be immediately assimilated into big corporation's big codebases and nothing will ever be given back.