Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?
Nate Duehr writes:
> What if I don't WANT a Copyright.
The politicians and lawyers who created copyright law cannot conceive of
such a thing. Consequently copyright is compulsory. The best you can do
is explicitly license it for anyone to do anything they want with it.
> And that is the point I'm trying to drive home to anyone who believes
> that code requires a license. It simply doesn't.
If you give or sell me a copy of a work of yours I own that copy and can do
as I please with it (that includes running it if it is a computer program)
with no need for a license. However, copyright law forbids me to make and
distribute copies of it without your permission.
> Code is code, and is always Free, unless created under contract that it
> remain non-Free or released under a restrictive license like the GPL or
> BSD or anything else... anything other than raw code is encumbered with
> non-Freedom.
Code is protected by copyright by default and may not be copied and
distributed without permission of the copyright owner.
> it's just a point that few in the GPL fan-boy community ever even think
> about, let alone really digest fully.
Perhaps you should try actually reading the copyright law. It is available
on line at
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sup_01_17.html>.
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John Hasler
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