Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes: > Guys, once again we had a complaint about forcing people to waste their time > on copyright matters then wait months or years for review of said matters > -- just for the discussion degenerate into a proposal to bring even MORE > copyright into our life! > >> - What is REUSE? >> The REUSE specification [1] is a specification to make copyright >> machine-readable in the source files itself. It is straightforward to >> implement, add (e.g.) "SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Jane Doe > [...] >> The spec is made by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and is >> already implemented in several projects [3]. > > ... and this proposal includes gems such as an extra copyright-only file per > every image. Dᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ! > > The Social Contract says clearly: > "Our priorities are our users and free software" > -- NOT copyright lawyers. > > I, and probably others, consider copyright to be a crime against humanity > -- and this is not just a figure of speech[1]. We are forced to comply > with these laws, risking fines and violence if we don't, but why should > we put more effort than the minimum necessary? To better protect our users as they exercise point 1 of the DFSG, obviously! We can disagree about what the right amount of such effort is, and its diminishing returns, but I don't see how the intention/objective itself is at question here. -- Gard
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