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> He is the kind of guy who makes zero concessions for practicality Didn't he give some wiggle room in GPL license ?

• bigstrat2003 1y ago
  Inasmuch as the GPL itself is not Stallman's preferred state of affairs (he would prefer to see copyright abolished altogether, at least for software, and copyleft is just a compromise for now), I suppose so. Otherwise I'm not aware of any wiggle room, was there something specific you had in mind?
  • simoncion 1y ago
    > [H]e would prefer to see copyright abolished altogether, at least for software... Oh? From the "Finding the right bargain" section of this 2002 essay [0] > So perhaps novels, dictionaries, computer programs, songs, symphonies, and movies should have different durations of copyright, so that we can reduce the duration for each kind of work to what is necessary for many such works to be published. Perhaps movies over one hour long could have a twenty-year copyright, because of the expense of producing them. In my own field, computer programming, three years should suffice, because product cycles are even shorter than that. Has his opinion changed since then? [0] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.htm...>