Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

[Daniel Pocock]

On 05/06/16 20:27, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> On 05/06/16 19:23, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 05/06/16 19:46, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
>>> Il giorno domenica 05/06/2016 17:16:29 CEST
>>> Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> ha scritto:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> We need a GPL compatible license that acknowledges the problems of
>>>>> globalization.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe we need to think about how copyright and intellectual property
>>>> law should work at a global scale, regardless of whether the subject
>>>> matter is GPL or not.
>>>
>>> Agree.
>>> And raising: we need to think about how to completely eradicate
>>> any copyright and (so called) "intellectual property" institutions at
>>> a global
>>> scale!!!
>>
>> If copyright law didn't exist, then developers would not be able to use
>> the GPL to place copyleft conditions on derivative works
> 
> That is true, but if copyright law doesn't exist, then wouldn't
> proprietary software also not be possible? If so, then copyleft wouldn't
> be needed anyway. But please let me know if I'm wrong.
> 

Without copyright, you could copy closed-source binary code but you
would have to do extra work to reverse engineer it

Having copyright law + GPL ensures that you are entitled to original
source code.

Copyright also lets you put other conditions on your code, for example,
the condition that derivative works can only be used for good and not evil.