But you are failing miserably to frame the debate in any way whatsoever. If you genuinely want to help your developers understand copyright law as this subthrea

But you are failing miserably to frame the debate in any way whatsoever. If you genuinely want to help your developers understand copyright law as this subthread suggests we do, why needlessly confuse things? Why not frame it as what it is, a debate about copyright law? A lot of developers I work with have a really hard time seeing where one area of law begins and where another one ends, and this isn't helping. This is not just bad for the idealist in me, this is also bad for the entrepreneur in me, who has a harder time running a efficient and profitable organization as a result. And there's no need to make it an us-vs-them issue. Nobody is defining terms to fit their agenda, criticism of IP is simply pointing to differences that are already codified in law. So if you don't like it, take it up with your legislators. You don't have to be either for or against copyleft to want say the big scary copy-r-word to your developers. Even the most ardent copyleft haters and copyright abolitionism idealists are shooting themselves in the foot when they make snide remarks toward lawyers about their "legalese", before they know it reality will catch up with them and they'll be hit with overly broad patent suits or some jerk will infringe on their trademarks.