"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org wrote:
Generally speaking I share Richard Stallman's opinion, but I'm not sure whether Copyright was a good idea. But you can't alter the past and now it's time to abolish such laws, because they inhibit a more effective production by factitious stringency and therefore allow everyone to take part in cultural development.
If copyright is abolished, then there's no more GPL. What about that?
One should introduce a new law that respects the rights of all users instead. Copyright does not do this without some hackery (e.g. the GPL).
Yes, that's a clever trick. I haven't thought about it, but it's really obvious.
Regards Matthias-Christian