Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

From: Frank Barknecht <fbar@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 02:46:26 EET

Hallo,
Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote:

> I hope you understand that there could be no "free software" without
> copyright.

Of course there can be Free Software without copyright. Public Domain
is an example, there are others. The incentive to use the concept of
Copyright in the GPL never was to praise the merits of "Copyright" or
even "Intellectual Property". The GPL used the already existing
Copyright laws to fight Copy-Restrictions. That's why this is called
Copyleft. Please don't turn the Copyleft idea into a defense of
Copyright.

Ciao

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