You Can Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source 378
kfogel writes "I'm submitting 'Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright' as a response to Greg Bulmash's piece from yesterday. I think there were a number of flaws and mistaken assumptions in Bulmash's reasoning, and I've tried to address them in this rebuttal, which has undergone review from some colleagues in the copyright-reform community."
Abolishing copyright abolishes GPL (Score:2, Informative)
fix the article title, then (Score:3, Informative)
Then why not make the title of this article: "Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright", instead of repeating the same title from the previous article?
People who just scan titles, esp on RSS, are going to think this is a dupe.
Re:Not all open-source is the same (Score:4, Informative)
If you oppose copyright, but can't do anything about the existence of copyright, you can at least put stuff into the public domain without allowing someone to wrap it up in copyright and resell it. That's basically all the GPL does, and I don't see any conflict there at all.
Maybe if copyright was written differently, or not at all, we wouldn't have _need_ of the GPL, but that's a different story.