Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?

[Tobias Platen]

On 02/12/2016 06:29 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> On 02/12/2016 09:24 AM, Tobias Platen wrote:
>
> > Copyleft requires that the exact license text is passed to all readers
> > and users. One can still modify the GPL, but that modified licence needs
> > a different name, as it is not the original work. Even if the GPL were
> > not copyrighted, as laws and other legal publications are, only the
> > version published by the Free Software Foundation is valid if properly
> > marked. I think copyright should be abolished and replaced with a legal
> > copyleft that protects software freedoms. The GPL would then be obsolete
> > (and in the public domain).
>
> In order to make the GPL obsolete we need the combination of *three*
> legal changes:
>
> 1. abolish patent and copyright law
> 2. prohibit DRM
> 3. mandate source release for all published works
There may be works without a clear sourcecode form such as sound 
recordings. I think that the FSF does not have any recommended license 
for sound recordings, but the demand that the format must be patent free 
and there is no DRM.

> I regularly state that those three are precisely my personal wish. I
> think number 1 alone would be positive enough to be worthwhile, but I
> completely respect the concerns that we might have serious problems
> unless we get all three together.

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