Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)

[Aaron Wolf]

Not enforcing copyright on non-free software leaves the problem of
copyright for everything else (like cultural works and science and
more). Copyright is fundamentally itself a problem. But I said I
wouldn't get into that.

The issue is: non-free software isn't non-free merely because of the
copyright terms. It's non-free also because the source is rarely
available. In order to have software freedom, it's not enough to ignore
/ abolish copyright on non-free software. We must also assure that the
source is available in the preferred form for modification.

On 03/08/2015 12:01 PM, Will Hill wrote:
> Wouldn't it be easier to not enforce copyright on non free software?  It's 
> evident that people don't need copyright to encourage them to write software 
> and non free software never practically enters the public domain.  
> 
> On Sunday 08 March 2015, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>> I've been suggesting for a long time that the ideal vision we should at
>> least have rhetorically (not practically) is the abolition of copyright
>> and patent laws combined with mandatory source-release for published
>> works and prohibition of DRM.
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