On 08-Feb-2008, Carsten Agger wrote:
If copyright is abolished, then there's no more GPL. What about that?
That's fine. The GPL uses the term "copyleft" deliberately: its goal is to *give back* to recipients of works what copyright takes away.
In other words, if copyright truly did not exist, and everyone had the same freedoms (and more) in every work, not just those that have such freedoms explicitly granted by the GPL, then there would no longer need to be a GPL.
That would be a good day.