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There is a pretty good argument that this should be required for copyright protection. The point of copyright is supposed to be to ultimately get works for the
by AnthonyMouse 2y ago
There is a pretty good argument that this should be required for copyright protection. The point of copyright is supposed to be to ultimately get works for the public domain, when the copyright expires. If the source code has never been released then it's failing at its purpose. Once a work is in the public domain the public is supposed to be able to make derivatives etc. So to have copyright protection for software you should have to release the source code.
- jandrese 2y agoA noble idea, but it should be pointed out that of all of the software ever written on planet Earth, only Ada Lovelace's somewhat notional code for a non-existent machine would be in the public domain in the year 2024. The earliest you would expect to see "modern" code entering the public domain is sometime in the 2060s, and that would be written in Plankalkül.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThe same legislative change would do well to moderate copyright terms.