I want more high quality code and I want more high quality culture. Both have one major obstacle in the way and is at the core of this post, my comment and your

I want more high quality code and I want more high quality culture. Both have one major obstacle in the way and is at the core of this post, my comment and yours: Copyright. I fail to see why we should make exceptions to copyright for the sake of code, but not for the sake of culture.